Revelation and Compilation of the Quran
It is true that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was illiterate.
The Quran was revealed over a period of 23 years and was written down in its entirety during the Prophet’s lifetime by his companions. The Prophet always arranged for each passage of the Qur’an to be recorded in writing as soon as it was revealed.
It was customary for the Prophet to ask the transcriber to read out the verses after writing them down. According to Zayd ibn Thabit ( companio of Prophet Muhammad pbuh), if any part was missed out in the writing, he would correct it and only after this written work was fully completed would the Prophet allow the propagation of those verses.
It has been established from authentic traditions that the angel Gabriel, who conveyed the revelations of God to the Prophet, himself arranged these verses as per Allah's guidance. Each year during the month of Ramadan, Gabriel would come to the Prophet and recite before him all the Quranic verses revealed up till that time in the order in which they exist today, after which the Prophet would repeat the verses in exactly the same order.
In the last year of the Prophet’s life, when the revelations had been completed, Gabriel came to the Prophet and recited the entire Qur’an in the existing order twice, and similarly the Prophet also recited to Gabriel the entire Qur’an twice.
When by the help of Gabriel the Qur’an was fully and systematically arranged, the Prophet recited it to his companions on different occasions in the order with which we are familiar today. The Qur’an was thus preserved in its pristine form in the memories of tens of thousands of the companions during the Prophet’s lifetime.
At that time writing materials used were
Thin leather pieces
Thin slates of white stone
The round bone of the shoulder of the camel
The wide part of the root of the date branch
During the caliphate of Uthman (the third Caliph) there entered the fold of Islam people whose mother tongue was not Arabic, and who were not able to speak the language with the proper accent and pronunciation. Even the various Arab tribes themselves had different accents and pronunciation.
As per the order of the third caliph, a committee of Prophet's companions wrote down the Qur’an in accordance with the spelling of the Quraysh, so that it should conform to the accent (lehja) of the Prophet of Islam.By this method, all the copies of the Qur’an were made uniform as far as writing was concerned
It is an irrefutable fact acknowledged by the all, that any copy of the Qur’an found in any part of the world at any time will be exactly the same as that handed down to the Muslims by the Prophet in his last days. Million of Muslims memorize it in arabic and not a single word gets changed or altered. All Muslims recite the Quran in Arabic but non Arabs use translations to help them understand it better.
If you ask ten Muslims of different countries of any age group, gender, class to recite the 6 verses of Chapter 114 in Arabic, they'll all say the same words, or read what is Chap 18, verse 52, each Holy Quran will all have the SAME answer. . How is that for a miracle!!
Many ancient Quranic manuscripts are displayed in museums (you can google search it) and historians agree that not a single word is changed through the course of history. It a promise Allah made in the Quran.
"The historical credibility of the Qur'an is further established by the fact that one of the copies sent out by the Caliph Uthman is still in existence today. It lies in the Museum of the City of Tashkent in Uzbekistan, Central Asia....and an early manuscript on gazelle parchment exists in Dar al-Kutub as-Sultaniyyah in Egypt. More ancient manuscripts from all periods of Islamic history found in the Library of Congress in Washington, the Chester Beatty Museum in Dublin (Ireland) and the London Museum have been compared with those in Tashkent, Turkey and Egypt, with results confirming that there have not been any changes in the text from its original time of writing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Quran_%28Koran%29
The Quran was revealed over a period of 23 years and was written down in its entirety during the Prophet’s lifetime by his companions. The Prophet always arranged for each passage of the Qur’an to be recorded in writing as soon as it was revealed.
It was customary for the Prophet to ask the transcriber to read out the verses after writing them down. According to Zayd ibn Thabit ( companio of Prophet Muhammad pbuh), if any part was missed out in the writing, he would correct it and only after this written work was fully completed would the Prophet allow the propagation of those verses.
It has been established from authentic traditions that the angel Gabriel, who conveyed the revelations of God to the Prophet, himself arranged these verses as per Allah's guidance. Each year during the month of Ramadan, Gabriel would come to the Prophet and recite before him all the Quranic verses revealed up till that time in the order in which they exist today, after which the Prophet would repeat the verses in exactly the same order.
In the last year of the Prophet’s life, when the revelations had been completed, Gabriel came to the Prophet and recited the entire Qur’an in the existing order twice, and similarly the Prophet also recited to Gabriel the entire Qur’an twice.
When by the help of Gabriel the Qur’an was fully and systematically arranged, the Prophet recited it to his companions on different occasions in the order with which we are familiar today. The Qur’an was thus preserved in its pristine form in the memories of tens of thousands of the companions during the Prophet’s lifetime.
At that time writing materials used were
Thin leather pieces
Thin slates of white stone
The round bone of the shoulder of the camel
The wide part of the root of the date branch
During the caliphate of Uthman (the third Caliph) there entered the fold of Islam people whose mother tongue was not Arabic, and who were not able to speak the language with the proper accent and pronunciation. Even the various Arab tribes themselves had different accents and pronunciation.
As per the order of the third caliph, a committee of Prophet's companions wrote down the Qur’an in accordance with the spelling of the Quraysh, so that it should conform to the accent (lehja) of the Prophet of Islam.By this method, all the copies of the Qur’an were made uniform as far as writing was concerned
It is an irrefutable fact acknowledged by the all, that any copy of the Qur’an found in any part of the world at any time will be exactly the same as that handed down to the Muslims by the Prophet in his last days. Million of Muslims memorize it in arabic and not a single word gets changed or altered. All Muslims recite the Quran in Arabic but non Arabs use translations to help them understand it better.
If you ask ten Muslims of different countries of any age group, gender, class to recite the 6 verses of Chapter 114 in Arabic, they'll all say the same words, or read what is Chap 18, verse 52, each Holy Quran will all have the SAME answer. . How is that for a miracle!!
Many ancient Quranic manuscripts are displayed in museums (you can google search it) and historians agree that not a single word is changed through the course of history. It a promise Allah made in the Quran.
"The historical credibility of the Qur'an is further established by the fact that one of the copies sent out by the Caliph Uthman is still in existence today. It lies in the Museum of the City of Tashkent in Uzbekistan, Central Asia....and an early manuscript on gazelle parchment exists in Dar al-Kutub as-Sultaniyyah in Egypt. More ancient manuscripts from all periods of Islamic history found in the Library of Congress in Washington, the Chester Beatty Museum in Dublin (Ireland) and the London Museum have been compared with those in Tashkent, Turkey and Egypt, with results confirming that there have not been any changes in the text from its original time of writing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Quran_%28Koran%29
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