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The authenticity of the quran
The revelation of the Quran came to prophet Muhammed in fragments from time to time.
As soon as he recieved any , he used to communicate it to his companiens and ask them not only to commit it to memory , but also to write it down.
In the prophet's life , he used to indicate in a precise manner the place to which the revelation belongs, thus the complete Quran was commited to writing & also preserved in the hearts of hundreds of Muslims .
After the demise of prophet Muhammed PBUH, Abu Bakr the first caliph , charged Zaid Ibn Thabit with the task of preparing an authentic copy of the holy Quran in a form of a book .
The companiens of the prophet , wrote the revelation on parchments & pieces of leathers.
Zaid Ibn Thabit collected all these and compared them with what the prophet's followers learnt by heart , compiled a copy called " Musshaf". This proccess made no doubt about the genuinenss & th ecorrectness of the Quran .
Then Othman , the third caliph , ordered to make 7 copies of the " Musshaf" edition , & sent a copy to the different centers of the vast Islamic world.
From the time of th eprophet to our own time the practice of learning the Quran by heart has continued unbroken, & th enumber of people who learn it by heart can be counted by hundreds of thousands all over the world . the result is that , no scolar, eastern or western. Muslim or non-muslim, has never cast any doubt on the purity of the text.
Even such an unfriendly critic as Sir William Muir writes about the Quran :
" there is probably in the world no other book which has remained 12 centuries with so pure a text "
The revelation of the Quran came to prophet Muhammed in fragments from time to time.
As soon as he recieved any , he used to communicate it to his companiens and ask them not only to commit it to memory , but also to write it down.
In the prophet's life , he used to indicate in a precise manner the place to which the revelation belongs, thus the complete Quran was commited to writing & also preserved in the hearts of hundreds of Muslims .
After the demise of prophet Muhammed PBUH, Abu Bakr the first caliph , charged Zaid Ibn Thabit with the task of preparing an authentic copy of the holy Quran in a form of a book .
The companiens of the prophet , wrote the revelation on parchments & pieces of leathers.
Zaid Ibn Thabit collected all these and compared them with what the prophet's followers learnt by heart , compiled a copy called " Musshaf". This proccess made no doubt about the genuinenss & th ecorrectness of the Quran .
Then Othman , the third caliph , ordered to make 7 copies of the " Musshaf" edition , & sent a copy to the different centers of the vast Islamic world.
From the time of th eprophet to our own time the practice of learning the Quran by heart has continued unbroken, & th enumber of people who learn it by heart can be counted by hundreds of thousands all over the world . the result is that , no scolar, eastern or western. Muslim or non-muslim, has never cast any doubt on the purity of the text.
Even such an unfriendly critic as Sir William Muir writes about the Quran :
" there is probably in the world no other book which has remained 12 centuries with so pure a text "
