Hadhiya (Blog post 11 (iv))
How do we know that the Quran has been protected ? Imagine a game of secret pass (I’m sure you played one of those). The one who starts the game may have said “John hit Tom.” But as the message is passed secretly in the circle, it keeps changing. And at the end, the message may turn out to be something like “John broke into Ahmed’s house and burnt it down.” (way too exaggerated but it does happen). So the idea is, when something is passed orally, the message is likely to change. This is the western academics’ argument against the Quran. They say that the Quran was passed orally from the Prophet (SAW) to his companions. And we know from our tradition that the Quran was passed orally by many . Now imagine, Islam spread all over the world after the Prophet (SAW). There would have been so many people who learned the Quran from his companions ORALLY in Makkah and then went back to their own nations and taught what they learned ORALLY. This has happened for centuries now. If the ...
