02-27-2007, 11:14 PM
Bismillah
"And Wel...I went back and read the link you posted.
You admitted that the compiled oldest Quran text was not written by the hand of Mohammed. You said that the Quran was passed down orally etc."
#1 Muhammad was illiterate so how could he write them with his own hands.
#2 He employed scribes to write down revelations as they came. These were "compiled" into one book during the reign of the first Kahlifa. "Compiled" meaning the Qur'an already existed in beginning to end form in the memories of the Campanions. (Really hard for a written society to understand an oral... they still exist though so it one wants to learn more about the memorization abilities of these societies it can be learned about.)
#3 The "compiler" during Abu Bakr's rule was the closest personal scribe of the Prophet, Zaid ibn Thabit.
sorry to be off topic but the verocity of the Qur'an was being questioned so I thought I would offer this info. If this leads to further straying, I'll start another topic... again.