Hi
It is very easy to verify. There are no two Qurans in the world with two different texts.
Even if all written Qurans are, Godforbid, destroyed or burnt, there are thousands of persons in different regions of the world who have learnt it by heart; it would be immediately written down from memory with no change in the text.
Visit any mosque near your home, please, take along a copy of ArabicQuran with you, ask them for a Hafiz or Qari , and then ask him to recite it, and verify it with the one with you. It would be ditto the same.
Thanks
That’s not the truth my friend, sorry!
You probably imply that the alleged distortion of the NT can be proven through the existence of four different Gospels, but no way! In order to use the number of Gospels against their authenticity, you have to accept from start that early Christian communities were obliged to have one certain Gospel as their Sacred Scripture. No such claim is supported in Christianity. Since the Gospel is totally different from the Koran in form, you cannot expect it to be present in one single book.
Besides, the number (4) of Gospels does not indicate one text’s distortion at the expense of another since four Gospels exist at the same time independently yet harmoniously. Thus, one text does not replace another, but only supports and completes it.
Your Scripture has similar problems because it is impossible to historically and scientifically prove that today’s Koran was confirmed (sealed or signed) by Mohammed himself, who could not hold the Koran as a book in his hand due to his death. More, Muslim clerics and scholars admit that the Koran text prior to Uthman’s period is not accessible. In short, we cannot know for sure if Omar or Abu Bakr had ever tampered with the Koran after Mohammad’s departure
Finally, I have hard evidence to show that the people reciting the so-called divine verses from Allah failed to preserve them correctly because they either suffered from short memory or did not hear the same verses at the same time as some others. Compare the following verses about Solomon and his workers to see how some scribes reciting the Koran did not study their lessons well and eventually brought about awkward repetitions:
Surah 38 36. So We made the wind subservient unto him, setting fair by his command whithersoever he intended.
37. And the unruly, every builder and diver (made We subservient), 38. And others linked together in chains.
These verses only
imply that it was
the jinns that served Solomon in his kingdom through Allah’s permission.
Surah 21 81. And unto Solomon (We subdued) the wind in its raging. It set by his command toward the land which We had blessed. And of everything We are Aware. 82. And of the
evil ones (subdued We unto him) some who
dived (for pearls) for him and
did other work, and We were warders unto them.
This is the slightly perverted version of the original story in
chapter 34 indeed. The man or scribe who was asked to memorize and recite these verses failed to remember what jinns did in addition to diving, and tried to fill in the blank in his mind with the vague phrase “other work”. More than that, he used the adjectival phrase “evil ones” instead of “certain jinns” or “the unruly”.
Actually, these different versions of the same story were derived from the accidental perversion of the original verses below:
Surah 34 12. And unto Solomon (We gave) the wind, whereof the morning course was a month’s journey and the evening course a month’s journey, and We caused the fount of copper to gush forth for him, and (We gave him) **certain of the jinn **who worked before him by permission of his Lord. And such of them as deviated from Our command, them We caused to taste the punishment of flaming Fire. 13. They made for him what he willed: synagogues and statues,
basins like wells and boilers built into the ground. Give thanks, O House of David! Few of My bondmen are thankful.
Apparently, this was the original version of Solomon’s story since it explicitly stated who was made to serve Solomon and managed to give a list of the things those labourers did. Nevertheless, this scribe did not say the jinns were
divers although other scribes relating the same story in chapter 21 and 38 most likely reached the mistaken conclusion that the act of diving could be attributed to jinns on the basis of their constructing basins like wells.
Peace,
Angelos N. B.
