The 20 Versions of the Quran today. (7 are recorded in the Hadith.) Quran of today is different than what Muhammad revealed! Click to View Islam: Truth or Myth? start page The Muslim Claim that the Quran is unchanged: No other book in the world can match the Quran ... The astonishing fact about this book of ALLAH is that it has remained unchanged, even to a dot, over the last fourteen hundred years. ... No variation of text can be found in it. You can check this for yourself by listening to the recitation of Muslims from different parts of the world. (Basic Principles of Islam, Abu Dhabi, UAE: The Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahayan Charitable & Humanitarian Foundation, 1996, p 4) Many Variant Readings of the Quran Muslims attack the Bible on the grounds that it sometimes has conflicting wording from different manuscripts. Yet this is exactly the case with the text of the Quran. There are many conflicting readings on the text of the Quran as Arthur Jeffery has demonstrated in his book, Material for the History of the Text of the Quran (New York, Russell F. Moore, 1952). Mentions Variant readings in the Koran: Dashti, 23 Years, p. 28 Mentions Variant readings in the Koran: Mandudi, Meaning of the Quran, pp. 17-18 Mentions Variant readings in the Koran: McClintock and Strong, Cyclopedia, V152). [the Koran] had a large number of variants, not always trifling in significance (Islam, p. 189). It is interesting to note that in scholarly Muslim journals, there is beginning to be a grudging acknowledgment of the fact that there are variant and conflicting readings on the text of the Quran (One example would be Saleh al-Wahaihu, A Study of Seven Quranic Variants, International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies, Vol. V (1989), #2, pp. 1-57). The Muslin accounts of the history of the Quran texts are a mass of confusion, contradiction and inconsistencies (Burton, Collection, p. 231). Abdollah renounced Islam on the ground that the revelations, if from God, could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as he. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites (Dashti, 23 Years, p. 98). There being some passages in the Quran which are contradictory, the Muhammadan doctors obviate any objection from thence by the doctrine of abrogation; for they say that God in the Quran commanded several things which were for good reasons afterwards revoked and abrogated (E. Wherry, A Comprehensive Commentary on the Qurun, p. 110). It is to us astounding how so compromising a procedure can have been permitted to be introduced into the system by friends and foes (Canon Sell in his work, Historical Development of the Qura, Madras: Diocesan Press, 1923, pp. 36-37). When Muhammad died there existed no singular codex of the sacred text (Caesar Farah, Islam: Beliefs and Observations, New York; Barrons, 1987, p. 28). One thing only is certain and is openly recognized by tradition, namely, that there was not in existence any collection of revelations in the final form, because, as long as he was alive, new revelations were being added to the earlier ones (The Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam p. 271).
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