12-26-2012, 08:01 AM
Bismillah
Praise be to Allah, King of the Kings and Creator of all creations, prayer and peace be upon His Messenger Mohamed Ibn Abdullah.
To continue on the Ayah:" "Verily We: It is We Who have sent down the Reminder (i.e. the Qur'an) and surely, We will guard it (from corruption)." (Quran 15:9)
Was the Quran subject to distortion or falsification?
Evidences from Quran that prove falsification as impossible
In his Tafseer of Verily We: It is We Who have sent down the Reminder (i.e. the Qur'an) and surely, We will guard it (from corruption), Imam Qurtobi – may Allah Have mercy on him – said: Alhussain Ibn Fahm said: I heard Yahia Bin Aktham said: Almamoun – at the time he was a prince – used to hold a study gathering – among the mass a Jewish man who had a good appearance, good looking and smell came in. He started talking and he proved an excellent style. As soon as the gathering was over, Maamoun invited him and asked: are you an Israeli? He said: yes. He told him: embrace Islam, and I will do this and that promising him things. He said: my religion and the religion of my parents. He left. After one year, he came back to us as a Muslim. He started presenting Fiqh information in the best format. As soon as the gathering ended, Almamoun invited him and asked: aren’t you our past companion? He said: yes. He asked him: what was the reason that made you embrace Islam? He explained: as soon as I left your company, I felt like investigating these religions and as you can observe I m quite lucky. I started with the Torah, I made three copies with a number of insertions and omissions. After that, I took them into the Church (Jewish Temple), they bought them from me. Again to the Bible I repeated the same process and took them to the Bay`ah (Nasara’s temple) again they bought them from me. Finally, I applied the same procedures and took it into the Warraqiyah (where books are sold), they looked through them and reviewed them, as soon as they realized the insertions and omissions, they rejected purchasing the copies. As such, I realized that this book is well protected, and that was the reason for me to embrace Islam.
During the forties of the last century, a non Muslim made the a similar experiment to Quran, but in a more accurate format. He took one of the Quran books and deleted a dot off one of the letters. However, in selecting this particular word, he picked up one when the dot is deleted, the created word would have a meaning that goes along with the rest of the Ayah in an effort to make the realization difficult. Then he marked this particular copy of Quran and placed it in a major Masjed. After sometime, he came back and checked the copy to find that someone placed the dot he deleted. This incident was a reason for him to embrace Islam.
During the sixities, Israel introduced a copy of the Mushaf that was printed in Germany with a very high quality in terms of paper and print. However, they deleted a word of the Ayah:
And whoever seeks a religion other than Islâm, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers<sup>[1]</sup>.
But they omitted the word other than in order to change it into: And whoever seeks Islâm as a religion, it will never be accepted of him. As soon as the publication was introduced to the market, the distortion was discovered. Islamic countries immediately intervened, withdrew the publication off the markets and put to burn. As such, Allah’s words were applied in which Allah Say:
“Verily, those who disbelieve spend their wealth to hinder (men) from the Path of Allâh, and so will they continue to spend it; but in the end it will become an anguish for them. Then they will be overcome. And those who disbelieve will be gathered unto Hell.” (Quran 8:36).
Another institution sought to distort the Holy Mus haf using an approach that they perceived as acceptable to Muslims. They added to the Ayah:
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allâh. And those who are with him are severe against disbelievers, and merciful among themselves (Quran 48:29).
After the Messenger’s name, they added salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam And those who are with him. But again the change was discovered. In response, Islamic countries interfered, withdrew the changed copies and was put to burn.
In the sixties, a Muslim man whose sincerity is not subject to any doubt sponsored the printing of a Tafseer of Quran in one of the Islamic countries. Nevertheless, a typo occurred due to which an adjective of the wives of the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam was omitted.
“It may be if he divorced you (all) that his Lord will give him instead of you, wives better than you - Muslims (who submit to Allâh), believers, obedient (to Allâh), turning to Allâh in repentance, worshipping Allâh sincerely, given to fasting or emigrants (for Allâh’s sake), previously married and virgins.” (Quran 66:5). Although it was only a Tafseer, yet the publication was again taken off the market and burnt.
According to the historical events, human beings are incapable of changing even one letter of this book simply because Allah Vowed to Protect it saying: Verily We: It is We Who have sent down the Reminder (i.e. the Qur'an) and surely, We will guard it (from corruption).
Narrated Abudllah Ibn Omar may Allah Be Pleased with both of them: I saw the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam initiating the Takbeer for Salat, he raised his hands - in order to make the Takbeer – parallel to his shoulders, when he made Takbeer for Ruku, he again repeated the same position, and for the Sujud he applied the same position. When he said: same`a Allahu leman hamedah, he repeated the same position, and saying rubuna walakal hamd, and in another narration, when he stood back after ruk`u, however, he does not take this position either when he is going into Sujud or erecting back from Sujud. (reported by Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Daoud, Nasai, and Termidhi).