Are you going to tell me that truck driving instruction manuals can also be “from God”?
Yes, absolutely!
If your life depends on learning how to drive a truck, then such a manual will have great meaning for you. My life doesn’t depend on that so truck manuals mean nothing to me. For similar but more complex reasons, the Koran has no meaning for me. I can, nevertheless, recognize the meaning it has for Muslims, just as I can recognize the meaning that a truck manual would have for aspiring truck drivers.
The case for survival manuals being “from God” is best made, to my mind, in the Booker Prize winning novel “Life of Pi” by Canadian Yann Martel. The hero, Pi, is a Muslim Christian Hindu, finding “eternal verities” in all three faith traditions. However, once stuck out in the middle of the ocean with a Bengal tiger as fellow passenger, he has no other scriptural resource but a shipwreck’s survival manual which instructs him, among other things, on how to desalinate sea water using the most basic apparatus. For Pi, this might as well be the Holiest of Bibles, Korans, or Bhagavad Gitas.
Indeed, every word spoken or written by humanity is “from God” (at least to some small extent). So do be careful what you write: respect God at least thus far.
