?Muhammad
Promise of Protection
You asked if the Quran we have today is the same one which was
revealed to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The simple and the
clear answer is yes. It is the same exact one without any addition or omission
.and the evidence is self-evident inside the Quran as well as outside it
Let me give you some explanation here. The first place we should go to
ascertain the fact about the authenticity of the Quran should be the Quran
itself. We can simply read in the Quran such a great and unfailing pledge in
:which Almighty Allah says
َ ْالذک
ر َ
ِّ ن َنزّلَْنا
ُ ح َ
ْ َاِ ّنا ن
o ون ْ ظ
ُ اف
ِ ح َ ََواَِّنا لَہُ ل
Surely, We have revealed the Reminder and We will “
”(most surely be its guardian. (Al-Hijr 15:9
Logically speaking, the Quran being the final message of Allah is going
to be unchangeable till the Day of Judgment. For this job to be fulfilled, it has
to remain the same because if, God forbids, any change occurs, there will be
.no point behind its being the final message of Allah
Therefore, Almighty Allah Who knows the hearts and the nature of
human beings has taken the responsibility of guarding and protecting the
Quran from any change, so that it keeps on fulfilling its job and guiding all
.human beings till the Last Day
Unanimity of Muslim Scholars
The unanimity of Muslim scholars throughout the ages has also proved
that the Quran we have is the same which the Prophet had. The same holds
true for some unbiased Orientalist scholars who studied the Quran and found
the style and the wording exactly the same as that which was common
.during the time of the Prophet himself
Another point that needs reflection is that the Quran contains many
scientific miracles that were proven to be correct only recently; it therefore
stands to reason that had there been any change in the Quran, such verses
or many of them, would have disappeared and even changed, and thus
.proven wrong
Oral Transmission
Moreover, the Quran has been handed down through generations and
centuries by means of oral transmission alongside the written text and that
one of the unique merits of Muslims is their ability of maintaining an
unbroken chain proving the authenticity of their texts throughout all these
.centuries
Many people memorize the Quran in various parts of the world. All of
them meet in one place at one time and recite the same Quran. This leaves
no doubt that the Quran we have today is the exact one that was recited
.fifteen hundred years ago when the Prophet was alive
Another logical proof is the decline in the level of the Arabic language
.and the spoken dialects which we find everywhere in the Arab world
It is different in the written form as well as the oral form from the other
written or oral texts. Why? Because it was protected against the factors of
time and space, And for this job to be completed, Allah has enabled many
scholars who specialized in the Quranic text whether in the written or the oral
form and made their vocation in life to transmit it as exactly as it existed in
.the Prophet's life
Quranic Manuscripts
This copy still carries the traces of the blood of Usman who was killed
when he was reciting the Quran not long ago after the death of the Prophet.
The manuscript has been examined not only by Muslims but also by non-
Muslims, and it exists till today as standing evidence of the authenticity of
.the Quran
We can also notice the difference between the text written there and
the normal way of writing Arabic words and the question will rise: why did not
the normal way of writing affect the way of writing the Quranic text? The
simple answer to this is that the uniqueness of the Quran made it very
special and as a way of keeping this specialty is keeping it in the same
.formula it was firstly written
As for the question why there are many different translations of the
Quran, in fact, this has nothing to do with the text. Rather, the translations
are merely human attempts to understand the Divine text. Because they are
.merely human and not Divine, such attempts will be limited and imperfect
Therefore, we can have many translations, since all of them are human
contributions and attempts of conveying the message contained in the
.original text which was Divinely worded and arranged