It is an incontrovertible historical truth that the text of the Holy Qur'an extant today is, syllable for syllable, exactly the same as the Holy Prophet (salAllahu alayhi wasalam) had offered to the world as the Word of God.Īfter the demise of the Holy Prophet, the first Caliph Abu Bakr (radiAllahu anhu) assembled all the Huffaz and the written records of the Holy Qur'an and with their help had the whole text written in Book form. Method of preservations of the Quran after the demise of the Prophet An estimate of the number of the illustrious Companions may be obtained from the fact that one hundred and forty thousands Companions had participated in the Last Pilgrimage performed by the Holy Prophet (salAllahu alayhi wasalam).ĭ) A considerable number of the literate Companions kept a private record of the text of the Qur'an and satisfied themselves as to the purity of their record by reading it out to the Holy Prophet (salAllahu alayhi wasalam). In this manner, the text of the Holy Qur'an had been preserved in four different ways during the lifetime of the Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him):Ī) The Prophet (salAllahu alayhi wasalam) had the whole text of the Divine Messages from the beginning to the end committed to writing by the scribes of revelations.ī) Many of the Companions learned the whole text of the Quran, every syllable of it, by heart.Ĭ) All the illustrious Companions, without an exception, had memorized at least some portions of the Holy Qur'an, for the simple reason that it was obligatory for them to recite it during worship.
Method of preservations of the Qur'an during the Prophet's timeīesides, those of the Companions (radiAllahu anhum) who were literate used to keep a written record of several portions of the Holy Qur'an. Many of them learned the whole text and a far larger number had memorized different portions of it.
Hence the illustrious Companions would commit the Divine verses to memory as soon as they were revealed. Again, it was ordained from the beginning of Islam that a recitation of the Qur'an must be an integral part of worship. In this manner, the Holy Prophet continued to arrange the text of the Quran in systematic order till the end of the chain of revelations. The Blessed Prophet used to instruct the scribe about the sequence in which a revealed message was to be placed in a particular Surah (chapter). The written text was then read out to the Holy Prophet, who, having satisfied himself that the scribe has committed no error of recording, would put the manuscript in safe custody. Whenever some Divine Message was revealed, the Holy Prophet would call a scribe and dictate its words to him. The Book has been handed down to our age in its complete and original form since the time of Prophet Muhammad.įrom the time the Book began to be revealed, the Holy Prophet had dictated its text to the scribes. Not a single word has been deleted from its text. In this Book, the Holy Prophet's life, the history of the Arabs and the events which occurred during the period of the revelation of the Qur'an have not been mingled with the Divine Verses, as is the case with the Bible. Examination done by non muslims found the verses of Quran is the same since the Prophits life (Saas)
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