As such the Quran is an assemblage of 'ideas' and 'thoughts' leading towards a concentration upon the truth contained in them. It is also a furqan or discrimination in that it is the instrument by which man can come to discriminate between Truth and falsehood, to discern between the Real and the unreal, the Absolute and the relative, the good and the evil, the beautiful and the ugly.

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