However, some of their specimens are available.

However, some of their specimens are available. As regards the third art, viz writing, no specimen is available. We do not have any book relating to the Age of Ignorance which may serve as an example of the method of writing of that age. Islam developed all these three arts. The meaning of the verses expanded. If the verses of the period of Islam are compared with those of the Age of Ignorance considerable difference will be found between them from the point of view of vastness of ideas.

As regards the field of oratory Islam brought about a great revolution in it. It was Islam, by means of which composition and compilation of books started. There is a book named "Jamharut Khutba al-Arab". This compilation contains the orations of the Arabs relating to the Age of Ignorance and the period of Islam. If you glance at the orations of the Age of Ignorance, you will find that from the point of view of ideas they are very simple and unsophisticated.

However, when you see the orations of the period of Islam you will find a sort of revolution. Out of the orations of the Age of Ignorance some sentences of Aktham bin Sayfi and of the renowned Arab orator named Qus bin Sa'adah Ayadi have been quoted, but you will observe that they are quite ordinary and unadorned. However, as soon as you enter the Islamic period and look at the sermons delivered by the Holy Prophet, you will come across a new manner of speech.

In these sermons the ideas are different; various learnings are narrated; there is spirituality; there are social and moral problems and there is knowledge and wisdom, whereas in the orations of the Age of Ignorance no such things were present. Islam has developed all the three arts associated with the language.

The Holy Qur'an itself is an excellent specimen of miraculous linguistics and eloquence and declares speech to be a blessing of the Almighty Allah: The Beneficent (Allah) has taught the Qur'an to Muhammad (P). He created man and taught him intelligible speech. The very first verses which were revealed to the Holy Prophet of Islam related to pen and speech. Muhammad (P)! Read in the name of your Lord who created (all things). He created man from a clot of blood. Recite!

Your Lord is the most Honourable One, Who, by the pen taught man which he did not know. (Surah Alaq, 96: 1-4) As a result of this education not only a revolution took place in the art of oratory but the art of writing also flourished.