was not just through written record but through WORD by WORD complete
memorization in the dialect it was revealed and in the dialects it was allowed to recite and then through continuous remembrance/recitiations in the daily non-stop five times a day prayers and once every year rehearsing of whole text of the Koran during the months of Ramadhan, out of memory and verification by the listeners, right after the Koran was revealed. but sahih muslim gives evidence of people forgetting verses or adding verses…as to the dialects, there were 7 of them, each different from the other…and the variants of quran were added later : how do you make sure that the thousands of quranic verses without variants were adjusted adequatly when muslim scholars themselves believe that many verses could be read in an entirely different way?
The tradition of memorization of the Koran is UNIQUE and there is no such tradition attached to any other religious or non-religious book on the face of this earth in the entire known-history of the world. This Unique memorization is a TAWATUR
tradition which goes back to the Period of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) from our day. how do you make it unique? can you prove that only muslims on this earth have a “unique” tradition of memorization? i don’t so coz history proves something else and the hadith show a different reality.
At the present there are millions of Huffaaz
in the world of Muslims, who knew the whole text of the Koran by heart, word by word. There are numerous
Tafaasir (Commentries) too as well where in the whole text of the Koran is found. we’re interested in the past, not present…
It is only the Arabic original trext which is considered/accepted as the Koran
and it is this text only which is memorized word by word. yes even if you don’t understand a single word.Do you know arabic for example?
If every written document of the Koran (Masaahif) is destroyed from the face of the earth, it is not going to change an iota of the original Arabic text of the Koran because it will be re-written, re-produced, out of memory from the hearts of those millions of Huffaz
at any time and in any given period. then prove that not a single iota is different from the quran burnt by Uthman.
What the Third Caliph after the Prophet, Uthmaan ibn 'Affaan
, did was, in his period, when Islam spread rapidly in all four directions, and non-Arabs too embraced Islam, they alongwith some Arabs whose dialect/pronunciation was totally different than allowed/revealed dialects of the Koran, were **reciting ** the text of the Koran in other than revealed/allowed dialacts. When this news reached to Caliph Uthmaan, he took a very strong action. Why? Because the Koran was supposed to preserve in it’s pure form as it is since it is considered the last and Final Revelation till the end time of this earth. So he prepared official copies and were verified by the Scribes of the Prophets and Companions of the Prophet and those who knew the whole Koran by heart. There was no objection at that time to the copies made by Uthmaan. Then they were sent to different centers of Islamic Caliphate with an order to retain this original dialect/script and discard every other copy which contradicts. you bet there were objections to Uthmans’ copy…open a new thread for this.
The one way to retain this Original was to completly discard those copies which might create confusion.
why confusion if they were the same and if muhammad himself allowed 7 variants?
Now, were they all destroyed? Not necessarily. Some still might had in their possession who did not hear the order of Uthmaan.
proof.
But what happened later? Caliphate was turned into Mulukiyyah (Monarchy) after fourth Caliph and a brief period of 'Umar bin Abdul-'Azeez. Many dynesties emerged. Some were shia or pro- Shia too. Some were not fully Islamic. But did they ever try or were able to change the text of the Koran?
irrelevant coz the original qurans were burnt.
