METHODOLOGY FOR STUDY OF THE QUR'AN
by Sheikh Imran Nazar Hosein
One uniform unchanging text of the Qur’ān
The Qur’ān has many credentials with which to demonstrate the validity of its claim to be the revealed word of the ‘One True God’, and these credentials are readily discernible to uncorrupted minds and hearts. Among them is its unique status, not shared by any other book in all of human history, to have survived for so long a period of time with only one uniform text in existence. Every single copy of the Qur’ān present in the world today has a text that is miraculously identical to that of every other copy.
The only difference that can be found in the texts of the Qur’ān are differences in punctuation, and that is because human beings punctuated the text. It is precisely because the Qur’ān itself was not produced by a human being, but rather, it is revelation that is divinely-protected, that its text has remained miraculously uncorrupted for so long a period of time, and will forever remain uncorrupted. The blessed Prophet (s) never claimed that what was dictated were his words which he composed. Rather he disclosed that the Qur’ān was revealed to his heart through the medium of Angel Gabriel, and he then dictated to the scribes, what was communicated to his heart.
The only difference that can be found in the texts of the Qur’ān are differences in punctuation, and that is because human beings punctuated the text. It is precisely because the Qur’ān itself was not produced by a human being, but rather, it is revelation that is divinely-protected, that its text has remained miraculously uncorrupted for so long a period of time, and will forever remain uncorrupted. The blessed Prophet (s) never claimed that what was dictated were his words which he composed. Rather he disclosed that the Qur’ān was revealed to his heart through the medium of Angel Gabriel, and he then dictated to the scribes, what was communicated to his heart.
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