Scenario: A learner notices that the audible recitation is a human performance and asks whether the Qur’an must therefore be human-authored speech.
وَإِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ كَلَامُ اللَّهِ
And the Qur’an is the speech of Allah.
Governing principle: The Qur’an is Allah’s speech, while the reciter’s voice, articulation and physical act belong to the human reciter.
Sound application: The origin of the divine speech must be distinguished from the human act of reciting it.
Limit of the conclusion: The temporality of a reciter’s audible performance does not establish human authorship of the Qur’an.