All praise and thanks to the Creator of the heavens and the earth, who sent his best

creation (Prophet Mohammed Sallallahu alayhi wasallam), as a mercy to all his creations. We praise Him and we glorify Him as He ought to praised and glorified and we seek refuge in Him from the accursed Shaitaan. We seek His guidance and blessings as we try to understand the subject in this article in the following pages.

Lets look at the ayah of naskh Pronunciation of the word naskh should be elongated towards the end of the word. Quran 2:106 - Ma nansakh min ayatin awnunsiha na/ti bikhayrin minha aw mithlihaalam taAAlam anna Allaha AAala kulli shay-in qadeer Translation: We do not abrogate a verse or cause it to be forgotten except that We bring forth [one] better than it or similar to it. Do you not know that Allah is over all things competent? This is called the ayah of abrogation. The word used is nansakh. Trilateral root is Nun-Siin-Kha
The various meanings from the trilateral root are: to abolish, destroy, abrogate, nullify, obliterate, conceal, transfer, substitute, copy, transcribe, rule out. It is used in the imperfective active form in the ayah. And the word used prior to it is Ma. It is a conditional noun. In effect the translation given is the closest to derive the accurate meaning. The Quran here is speaking about something called naskh meaning cancellation or abrogation. And the Quran is saying that Allah says; He never cancels, He never abrogates, any ayah (revelation, a law, a message). He never does so without replacing it with something better or causes it to be forgotten. This is an important point. He never cancels or causes to be forgotten any ayah, but that He replaces it with that which is better or that which is similar. This point will help us in building the bridge between this verse and the punishment for zina. He never said He will replace it something which is different. So, according to the condition set by the ayah, if we look at the one which is cancelled or abrogated and you look at the one which has replaced it, the two have to be similar to each other or one has to appear better than the other. Another interesting point to note is that it cannot be in conflict with each other. And this is what happened. Allah (subhanu taaala) effects the first instance of naskh.

The expression of the word naskh has to be elongated towards the end of the word. So what does He cancel? He cancels the old sharia of Qiblah. The old sharia gave us that Jerusalem is the Qiblah. And then now a new verse comes and the new Qiblah is Mecca. But Qiblah of Jerusalem reminds Suleiman alayhi salam and Mecca reminds Ibrahim alayhi salam, no conflict with each other. This is naskh This is the methodology we have to adopt in the study of the subject of the punishment for zina in the religion of Ibrahim alayhi salam. The Christians says that they belong to the religion of Ibrahim alayhi salam. The Jews say the same. The Muslims say the same. The Quran tells Mohammed (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam), that he must also follow the religion of Ibrahim alayhi salam. So all three religions came from the religion of Ibrahim alayhi salam. And if we want to study the subject on punishment for zina, we have to do with this methodology. We have to go back to the previous sharia and find out what was there earlier. Next, comes the 2nd instance of naskh. Remember that prior to the revelation of the laws of fasting in the Quran, we fasted on the days the Jews fasted and we fasted in accordance with their laws of fasting. One major point of the laws of fasting for the Jews was that, they had to abstain from their wives when fasting. Then, in the Quran, Allah changes that law and replaces with another law. Quran 2:187 - It has been made permissible for you the night preceding fasting to go to your

wives [for sexual relations]. They are clothing for you and you are clothing for them. Allah knows that you used to deceive yourselves, so He accepted your repentance and forgave you. So now, have relations with them and seek that which Allah has decreed for you. And eat and drink until the white thread of dawn becomes distinct to you from the black thread [of night]. Then complete the fast until the sunset. And do not have relations with them as long as you are staying for worship in the mosques. These are the limits [set by] Allah , so do not approach them. Thus does Allah make clear His ordinances to the people that they may become righteous.

If you look at the two laws of fasting (the one in Torah and the other one in Quran), they are similar, but the one in the Quran is better because, when this revelation came the whole of Medina was smiling. Allah makes it lawful to sleep with our wives during the night in the month of Ramadan.

This is Naskh. Allah turned towards the Ummah of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) mercifully, and He gave us a new law of fasting which is better than the previous one revealed in the Torah. And therefore its not appropriate for anybody to go and search in the Quran to find verses which are conflicting with each other. That is foolishness. Such methodologies do not suit the study of Islamic sciences. Such methodologies are rubbish. Nothing in the Quran that has been revealed has ever been cancelled or abrogated or caused to be forgotten. In fact, it is the previous revelations (Torah, Zaboor and Injeel) that is being cancelled or abrogated.

Allah has given a divine guarantee of protection of the Quran. There is no room for anyone to even suggest a slightest possibility of some verse of the Quran being forgotten. And therefore if any change that needs to take place in the Quran, who is the authorised person to inform us? It is definitely the one who has been divinely appointed as a teacher. And that person is no one else but Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). He was the divinely authorised person to inform us if ever there was any cancellation or abrogation that took place in the Quran. Quran 2:151 - Just as We have sent among you a messenger from yourselves reciting to you Our verses and purifying you and teaching you the Book and the wisdom and teaching you that which you did not know. No one else, be it a moulana or sheikh from India, Egypt or Pakistan or Malaysia or anywhere for that matter, is appointed to inform us about any cancellation or abrogation if ever it took place. It was only and only Nabi Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) that was appointed by Allah. So he was the one who had to inform us if ever there took any naskh of the ayat of the Quran. But going back to all the historical records, we do not find a single unequivocal statement where Nabi Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) gave us such information. He never spoke of any single change in the Quran. And therefore if anybody tells us, and it does not matter to us who he is, and a report comes to us, we will not accept it. We would deem such report as false. It may happen that somebody fabricated some story and put it in the name of the Companions of the Prophet. We cannot deny such incidents that could have taken place, because Allah promised only to protect the Quran. And therefore, cancellation or abrogation or verses being forgotten, that Allah has ordained does not refer to anything in the Quran. It refers to the revelation that came before the Quran.

One Christian asked a question Nabi Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) is dead and gone. So is there anything now in the Quran that can be cancelled or abrogated in the future? Answer is big (big) NO! NO!! NO!!! Never ever that can happen. But there is a hadees in Sahih Bukhari which says When Nabi Isa Alayhi Salam comes back, he is going to abolish jizya. The law of jizya is in the Quran. So according to Sahih Bukhari, an event would take place in the future which is going to cancel or abrogate an ayah of the Quran. Are we going to believe such things which say a verse from the Quran was ever cancelled or can be cancelled at a later time or was ever forgotten or will ever be forgotten? Well, its time for the world of Islam to be taught this subject properly. Its time for the scholars of Islam to stop what they have been doing. What we have to realize while considering the books of ahadith is: 1. Allah did not appoint anybody divinely to write books on ahadith. 2. Allah did not give any kind of promise to protect the books of ahadith from corruption. 3. Superficial reading of ahadith from the Sahih Bukhari or Sahih Muslim can lead to disastrous conclusions. Proper understanding of the science of hadith is necessary before understanding one single hadith. 4. Any Muslim scholar no matter how religious he is can make mistakes for the fact that he is a human being. 5. When a Muslim scholar makes a mistake we should not abuse him or his works. 6. In fact as Muslims we should use the Quran to gather the correct and true information from such books, including the books of ahadith. 7. Read Surah AL Kahf every Friday to identify true information from the false ones. 8. The literature that is seen in the books of ahadith are full of figure of speech and religious symbolism and metaphors. Literal interpretation of the hadith is not always possible. 9. The books of ahadith have been compiled by the same people who had memorised the whole Quran during the times of the Prophet. 10. The first generation of books that were available have vanished because of the availability of the encyclopaedia type of books on ahadith like Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.

So the hadees in Sahih Bukhari about abolishing jizya may mean something else and hence we have to agree at this point that no verse of the Quran can ever be abrogated or cancelled in the future when Nabi Isa Alayhi Salam returns. Now lets deal with the 3rd Naskh.

In the same way that they tested Nabi Isa alayhi Salam, it is intriguing to us, we dont know why the Jews do so, they now come to Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), with the same test. They brought two people, who have confessed to zina asking Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) to judge.

It was a test. It was a trap by the Jews. How will Nabi Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) respond? In the case of Nabi Isa alayhi Salam, he was prepared to enforce the law. Nabi Isa alayhi Salam said Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her. [Reference RSV Bible John 8:7] And when there was nobody to cast stone, Nabi Isa alayhi salam allowed the woman to go away. Now in the case of Nabi Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), they brought two people who have confessed to zina and they ask Nabi Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) to judge. But the trap boomeranged on the Jews. Nabi Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) asked What punishment do you give? Our understanding is the Jewish council of law, had already taken a decision to abandon the law of stoning to death as punishment for zina. This happened 2000 years ago. So when the Prophet asked What law, what punishment you give? Bring me the Torah. So that book, even with the changes in it is still recognized as the Torah in the times of Nabi Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). Even though the text was corrupted, it was still recognised as the Torah. When they brought the Torah, someone was appointed to read the passage pertaining to punishment for zina. Abdullah bin Salam was present. He accepted Islam and was a Jew. When the appointed person was reading and he came to the passage on the law of stoning to death for zina, he put his finger on it, in order to hide it. The person read over it. Abdullah bin Salam said stop. Raise your finger and now read So the person had to read, that in the Torah in their book, it is mentioned that the punishment for zina was stoning to death.

[Reference Book of Deuteronomy 22.23 If a damsel who is a virgin be betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city and lie with her, 22.24 then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones, that they die the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city, and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbours wife; so thou shalt put away evil from among you.] So if any Christian or a Jew were to say, that it is barbarism, you are insulting the God of Abraham. If anyone, who is not a Jew or Christian but a Hindu or Buddhist were to say that this is barbarism, remember you are going to have a very big problem on Judgement Day. Your sight is going to be very pitiful on Judgement Day if you open your mouth to say one word against the law of stoning to death, because it came from the God of Abraham.

And it is still there in the Torah. So continuing with the story. The Jews are now stammering and they said well, well, well you know, when the rich people committed zina, we had to let them off and the punishment was only given to the one who is poor This situation is prevalent today in the world. We dont want to name the countries. We leave that up to you to research and find out. So what the world has done today is they have replaced a God given law with their own whimsical laws. One example is, in one country they have law where the person who commits zina, his face is made black. We ask a question to those law makers. Why not red? We ask the world of Jews and Christians that when you abandon the Gods law and you make your own man made law, and then you do not implement Gods law and you do not implement your law as well!! Have you no shame? And here are million and millions of Muslims following an Arab Prophet and we are prepared today to enforce the law which is essence your law and which you have abandoned. So going back to story, we find that they had to read that the punishment for zina in the Torah is stoning to death. But they could not enforce it and therefore they replaced it with their own law. The question is now how will Nabi Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) respond? Will he say, He who is without sin should cast the first stone? No. Like Nabi Isa alayhi salam so do Nabi Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) recognized that it is Allahs law, that is stoning to death. And he ordered that the two people should be stoned to death. The Jews were absolutely astonished. Because its about 600 years since last they ever had a person stoned to death. And so now they realized that not only is this man (Nabi Mohammed) praying in the direction of Jerusalem, not only he is fasting with them, but he is also enforcing the law which they (Jews) have abandoned. They realized that this man had to be a Prophet of Allah.

[Reference on the Story : Sahih Bukhari Book #60 Hadith #79 Narrated 'Abdullah bin Umar: The Jews brought to the Prophet a man and a woman from among them who had committed illegal sexual intercourse. The Prophet said to them, "How do you usually punish the one amongst you who has committed illegal sexual intercourse?" They replied, "We blacken their faces with coal and beat them," He said, "Don't you find the order of Ar-Rajm (i.e. stoning to death) in the Torah?" They replied, "We do not find anything in it." 'Abdullah bin Salam (after hearing this conversation) said to them. "You have told a lie! Bring here the Torah and recite it if you are truthful." (So the Jews brought

the Torah). And the religious teacher who was teaching it to them, put his hand over the Verse of ArRajm and started reading what was written above and below the place hidden with his hand, but he did not read the Verse of Ar-Rajm. 'Abdullah bin Salam removed his (i.e. the teacher's) hand from the Verse of Ar-Rajm and said, "What is this?" So when the Jews saw that Verse, they said, "This is the Verse of Ar-Rajm." So the Prophet ordered the two adulterers to be stoned to death, and they were stoned to death near the place where biers used to be placed near the Mosque. I saw her companion (i.e. the adulterer) bowing over her so as to protect her from the stones.] But as we know from historical records, that they have rejected him. So after they rejected him, now Allah (subhanu taaala) gives us naskh. The First: The change in Qiblah from Jerusalem to Mecca. The Second: The change in the law of fasting. The Third now comes and it is in the Quran in Surah Noor which is Surah number 24 in the second verse. Allah (subhanu taaala) gives the law of punishment for zina (adultery and fornication), in the new sharia. What is the literal meaning of zina? Lets understand that first. The word zina comes from the trilateral root: Zay-Nun-Ya
Its various meanings are: [to mount, the mounting upon a thing, to commit fornication/adultery, fornicator/adulterer.]

The word zina is a verbal noun. Now we need to know what the meaning of these two terms is: fornication and adultery Fornication: illegal sexual intercourse by unmarried people. Adultery: Illegal sexual intercourse by people who are already married to a certain person, or a married person having illegal sexual intercourse with an unmarried person. What we find here is that that common denominator in both the definitions is sex outside the institution of marriage. These are the two words in English. Is it necessary that we have to have two words in Arabic too for differentiating between adultery and fornication? Is there any law of thesaurus to prove that it is a necessity? Definitely not! Arabic literature is very rich and one word is sufficient to encompass meaning of the variations in one type of action.

The word zina literally means: illegal sexual intercourse between an unmarried couples. Now whether the two people in action are unmarried or one of them or both of them are married to some other person, the word zina still encompasses the variety of situations that can arise in the case of illegal sexual intercourse. Set A unmarried Man Man married to woman B Man married to woman B Un married man Set B unmarried woman Un married woman Woman married to man C Woman married to man C Implication Word zina applicable Word zina applicable Word zina applicable Word zina applicable

Now that we have understood that literal meaning of the word zina, lets get back to the 3rd Naskh.
What we have realized now is that a new law replaces the old law. The new law never replaces the old law part time. There is no concept of naskh taking place only 50 % The new law always replaces the old law completely. Is there a concept that on yawm al jummaah you turn towards Jerusalem for Salah and you can turn towards Mecca for Salah on yawm al Sabbath? This is impossible. It can never happen as such. The old law is cancelled and abrogated totally and replaced with the new law. So the same law of naskh applies to the change of Qiblah and so to the change of laws of fasting and now so to the punishment for zina. The law of stoning to death is now totally and completely cancelled and abrogated. And that law is now replaced completely with the new law and that is public flogging. [Reference Quran 24:2 - The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day: and let a party of the Believers witness their punishment. 24:3 - Let no man guilty of adultery or fornication marry and but a woman similarly guilty, or an Unbeliever: nor let any but such a man or an Unbeliever marry such a woman: to the Believers such a thing is forbidden.] And only and only if there are 4 evidences testifying to the unlawful act and only and only if the person or both of them confessed to committing zina can the law of public flogging be applicable. Another interesting point is that it has to be proved that the act was a full-fledged illegal sexual intercourse and not half or quarter of the act. It is only then the punishment for zina is applicable. If there are no eye witnesses (it has to be 4 witnesses in total) and neither of the two confessed to committing zina, then the punishment cannot take place.

Muslims need to ponder on the verse 3. It speaks a lot about how to treat a person guilty of zina. Well then how come millions and millions of muslims around the world are prepared today to implement the punishment for zina as stoning to death? In one sense, we should be proud of it, that this Ummah is prepared today to enforce the law which the Jews and Christians have abandoned. There must be some wisdom behind this preparedness. The answer lies in the hadith. That there are at least 4 ahadith in Sahih Bukhari which gives a view that the law of Islam for punishment for zina is one in which the cancellation or abrogation was part time. That if the people who committed zina are unmarried, then the new law applies and the old law is cancelled. But if they are married, then the old in the Torah is not cancelled. It is still applicable according to the hadith. And there are few but not many instances in the ahadith of Nabi Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), enforcing the law as stoning to death. What the ahadith do not do is that they do not tell us that these acts of stoning to death ordered by Prophet Mohammed (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) took place before the revelation came down (cancellation and abrogation) or took place after the revelation. But there is a basic principle of methodology and we need expand it now. The Quran is absolutely authentic. There is a divine guarantee of the authenticity of the Quran and Allah protects it. No hadith has that status. And we request to read this with patience because it is important to understand the methodology before accepting any information as true and correct. It is the function of the Quran to sit in judgement over the hadith, not vice versa. Quran and hadith do not have the same status, not even if it is an authentic ahadith. You can never have the same status. And therefore when you find something in the books of ahadith, which is in conflict with the Quran, it is with the Quran that you must stay. That is the correct methodology. Quran 3:103 - And hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become divided. And there is one hadith in particular, again in Sahih Bukhari in which Umar (Radiallahu anhuma) is reported to have said that people will say we no longer find the verse of rajm in the Quran. Rajm means stoning to death. Reference on the narration [

Hadhrat Umar (Radiyallahu Anhu) said, "Verily, Allah Taala sent Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi wa sallam) with the truth, and revealed the Quran upon him. The verse regarding the

stoning of the adulterer/ess was from amongst the verses revealed (in the Quran). We read it, understood it and memorized it. Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) stoned and we stoned after him. I fear that with the passage of time a person may say, We do not find mention of stoning in the Book of Allah and thereby lead astray by leaving out an obligation revealed by Allah. Verily, the stoning of the adulterer/ress is found in the Quran and is the truth, if the witnesses are met or there is a pregnancy or confession." (Sahih Al-Bukhari Vol. 2 pg. 1009 / Sahih Muslim Vol. 2 pg. 65)
] This means the narration wants to convey a message that it used to be earlier in the Quran and now its no longer in the Quran now. It dropped out, or it was cancelled or it was forgotten!! Well if the verse of Rajm used to be in the Quran and it is no longer in the Quran, how can you be enforcing it in the hadith? What non sense is this that there used to be a verse in the Quran!! It is clear as daylight that this is a fabrication. And when we speak of a hadith which is in Sahih Bukhari and declare it is a fabrication that does not mean that the entire body of ahadith is destroyed. What non sense is that? The word Dajjal did not occur in the Quran. And you cannot understand the world today and you cannot understand what is happening in the world today without the knowledge of Dajjal. And all information about Dajjal that we have is in the books of ahadith. So because we declare one hadith from Sahih Bukhari to be a fabrication, are you going to declare now that we have said that the entire body of ahadith is destroyed? That is frivolous. The entire body cannot be destroyed. Muslim around the world need to wake up and have courage and integrity to recognize a fabrication in the ahadith to declare its a fabrication so as to invite the Jews and so as to invite the Christians, that when they (Jews and Christians) see a fabrication plain as daylight, do what we are doing in this article and declare it as fabrication. That does not mean that the rest of the Bible too has collapsed. No, not at all. So now we end by reminding our audience that Rajm (stoning to death) is their (Jews and Christians) law and not our (Islamic sharia) law. Below you can find the references for some ahadith from Sahih Bukhari for further explanation on the subject.

Below are the three narrations on the penalty of stoning, from the famous book of the Prophetic Traditions and Narrations known as Sahih Al-Bukhari: Hadith No. 4.829: When a Jew and a Jewess who had committed the illegal sexual intercourse were brought before the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), he ordered them to

be punished according to their Jewish laws that are recorded in the Torah. The couple was stoned to death. This Hadith was narrated by Abdullah bin Umar. Hadith No. 8.805: A married man from the tribe of Bani Aslam who had committed illegal sexual intercourse and bore witnesses four times against himself was ordered by the Prophet (s.a.s) to be stoned to death. This Hadith was narrated by Jabir bin Abdullah Al-Ansari. Hadith No. 8.804: Ash Shaibani narrates that when he asked Abdullah bin Abi Aufa; Did Allahs Apostle carry out the penalty of Rajam (i.e., stoning to death)? He said, Yes. When the narrator asked; Before the revelation of Surah-an-Nur or after it? He replied, I dont know. This Hadith is narrated by Ash Shaibani and is repeated one more time under Hadith No. 8: 824 QURAN VERSUS HADITH 1. The Surah-an-Nur (i.e. Chapter 24 of the Quran, in which the penalty of flogging is prescribed) was Revealed in or after the sixth year of Prophets migration from Mekkah to the city of Medinah. This is confirmed by verses 11 to 20. It is inconceivable that the Prophet, who has been declared by Allah as the best of the examples for Muslims, could have dictated his own edict after the revelation of Surah-an-Nur, which was delivered to mankind through him. 2. It is a known fact that before the promulgation of the Quranic Laws, the Prophet and his followers used to follow many of the Abrahamic Traditions and the Law of Moses. Once the specific Law of the Quran was revealed to the Prophet in that matter, the ancient traditions and laws became null and void. 3. The Hadith No. 5: 805 does speak of a married man being stoned to death but it does not specify the period when that penalty was confirmed. Before or after the Revelation of Allahs Law. One cannot use this example of a married individual and interpret it to be applied to the Revealed verse and then Create the distinction between the act of adultery and the fornication. 4. There is NO recorded authentic Narration in which the Prophet has made a ruling or given the directive that there is to be observed a distinction or inequality between the married persons and unmarried individuals when the penalty for the illegal sexual intercourse is to be applied. Nor, there is any explicit directive or a command of the Prophet asking the followers that the Revealed Verse of flogging is ONLY for the unmarried individuals. Allahs Law permits the guilty person to live and remarry (see below). No one has the authority to deprive that God given privilege Let no man guilty of adultery or fornication marry any, but a woman similarly guilty, or an Unbeliever, nor let any but such a man or an Unbeliever marry such a woman: To the Believers such a thing is forbidden. Quran Surah-an-Nur (24) verse 3. (This verse 3, follows the verse number 2 in which the penalty is prescribed and it emphasizes the fact that THERE IS NO DEATH PENALTY)

Commentary # 2957 (of Abdullah Yusuf Ali) to the above verse: Islam commands sexual purity, for men and for women, at all times, before marriage, during marriage, and after the dissolution of marriage. Those guilty of illicit practices are shut out of the marriage circle of chaste men and women. Surah-an-Nur REPEALED the previous directives permanently

Following is a reference for the rebuttal given by one of the authors in the website www.irfi.org [

Hadhrat Umar (Radiyallahu Anhu) said, "Verily, Allah Taala sent Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi wa sallam) with the truth, and revealed the Quran upon him. The verse regarding the stoning of the adulterer/ess was from amongst the verses revealed (in the Quran). We read it, understood it and memorized it. Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) stoned and we stoned after him. I fear that with the passage of time a person may say, We do not find mention of stoning in the Book of Allah and thereby lead astray by leaving out an obligation revealed by Allah. Verily, the stoning of the adulterer/ress is found in the Quran and is the truth, if the witnesses are met or there is a pregnancy or confession." (Sahih Al-Bukhari Vol. 2 pg. 1009 / Sahih Muslim Vol. 2 pg. 65)

The above text mentions: "We read it, understood it and memorized it." It is hard to conceive that a verse of such a serious consequence that was "READ, UNDERSTOOD AND MEMORIZED" by "WE" meaning several Muslims was LOST TOTALLY! Yet, "its hukm (injunction)" was NOT LOST!!! Please go to foregoing paragraphs of this article and read my lengthy response to such baseless conjectures. I wish to remind the readers and those who have rebutted that the verse number 9 of Surah Al-Hijr (15), is NOT LOST, it is well preserved and reads: "We have without doubt sent down the Message; and We will ASSUREDLY GUARD IT."

Should a Believer place his/her Imaan (faith), on the above verse which is duly recorded in the final compilation of the Qur'an and is available today for us to READ and UNDERSTAND --or-- upon something that is alleged to have been Lost or Abrogated and is not within the Final Compilation and Promulgation?

Here are two verses numbers 17/18 of Surah Al-Qiyamat (75) and they reveal: "It is for Us to collect it and to promulgate it: But when We have promulgated it follow thou its recital." After reading the above quoted verses one cannot take a stand that the final Compilation and Promulgation, when it was done by Hadhrat Uthman (r.a.), was for some reason or reasons not "FULLY COMPLETE IN ALL RESPECT" and the MESSAGE is not "FULLY GUARDED IN ALL RESPECT" unless that person prefers to be the REJECTER of the above quoted Verses of the Glorious Qur'an. IF the verse of Rajam (Stoning) was ABROGATED by Allah (SWT) then the "following obeying" of that Message was also Abrogated by Allah (SWT). And, He had Revealed the Substituted MESSAGE in Surah Nur, verses 2 to 5. Why not follow that MESSAGE which is before us, and be on the SAFE SIDE?
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Jazak Allah Khairan