Why the Quran ,unlike the bible, never changed?

Question

even it is said that the translations of the Quran can not be trusted ,and it is wrong to say that this translation is the Quran,you must know that it is just the interpretation which the translator understood,and he might be wrong or inaccurate,you can't use the translation in your prayers,you have to use the original Arabic text.

-doesn't believe me, here in the preface of Pickthall's translation,it is written that the Quran can never be translated.

http://www.al-sunnah.com/call_to_islam/quran/pickthall/

Answer 1

Yusuf Ali's first translation was very wrong and they edited it a lot.

But the Qur'an will never change because millions of people have memorized it!

Answer 2

Yes. The content of Quran, the words, the sentences, the phrase and every single detail in the Quran had never and will never be changed until the last day of the entire world. This is because the Quran is not written by human. It is the words of ALLAH S.W.T. In the Quran itself, ALLAH S.W.T. had challenged the non Muslims to do the same or almost alike ( write another book ) and ALLAH S.W.T.will convert the entire ocean water to be its ink, the non Muslims will never be able to do it. Quran is the only holy book which mankind could memorise its content without making a single mistake. Thus, it prevent the Quran from being altered,amended or change from its original version. May ALLAH S.W.T protect the AlQuranul kareem from the evil.

Answer 3

Show me the changes in the bible. You arent comparing and contrasting English translations in ignorance are you? http://bibleandquran.com/bible.htm <<< here is an article regarding the bible. By the way. The quran is from a false prophet. God doesnt use arabic. He used Hebrew. God talks directly to prophets. Do you read any of the writings of the prophets? Moses? Isaiah? Samuel? or do you just believe the pagan from mecca who never even worshipped God ?

Answer 4

The Qur'an never changed because the line from word to text was very short. It was also checked and rechecked by the sahabahs.

It will never change because millions of Muslims have the Qur'an memorized and most have at least 2 chapters memorized.

You can try to pretend their are other versions or corruptions or mistakes, but sorry that's only for the Bible. Sit down with a scholar if you want to argue stupid points :P

Answer 5

The fact is that people speak many different languages, and it would be nearly imposable for people to learn from a book that they don't understand...thus the reason of interpretation or translation. You are wanting to compare religions, that is your motive for this query.

Answer 6

My theory is that all those years before the Bible was mechanically printed, copies had to be hand copied. Can anyone guarantee that there were no changes from copier to copier? No.

How do we know the Quran didn't go through similar transformations? I asked this of a former co-worker that was muslim and he said there was no way, because "then it wouldn't be perfect".

I'm not talking about translations, I'm refering to the actual text of it.

Answer 7

In listening to a program on television, where two former Muslims were the guests, it is my understanding that Muslims actually have two books that they take their direction from. (I could be wrong about this) The first is the Quran which as I understand it is very similar to the Christian Bible's Old Testament. The second is the book (I can't remember what it is called) that is from the Prophet Mohamed. It is from that book that Muslims take a great deal of their beliefs...including the killing of the "infidels." If I am incorrect in my understanding, I apologize to members of Islam.

Answer 8

Prophet Muhammad was the first to write down the Quran revealed to him and when he died , the whole Quran was completely written, although not in one book, but rather on pieces of woods, papers, palm leaves, bones…etc. It was the first Khalifa, Abu Bakr who collected the Quran into one book. The manuscript on which the Qur'an was collected, remained with Abu Bakr and then with Umar (the second Khalifa), and after him, it remained with Hafsa, 'Umar's daughter and one of the Prophet's wives

This copy of the Quran, was the only copy made after Muhammad's own copy. It is from that copy that Uthman, the third Khalifa, made other copies to distribute to different regions of the Islamic Empire. Uthman returned Hafsa's copy of the Quran to her. Her copy however was later burned by Marwan b. Hakam (d.65/684). Burning of Hafsa's copy was the last chapter in covering up the addition of two false verses in sura 9 as later discovered.

Of the copies made by Uthman, two still exist to our day. One is in the city of Tashkent, (Uzbekistan) and the second one is in Istanbul (Turkey).

From these oldest copies more copies were made and distributed throughout the world. Although many famous Muslim scholars claim that all the copies of the Quran anywhere in the world are the same, they are only exposing their ignorance to the facts and mislead millions of Muslims to believe in their wrong teachings. The only motive for them is their misunderstanding of and inability to comprehend verse 15:9. We will see later different Qurans written differently. The most standardized editions of the Quran in the world today is the one printed in Cairo, Egypt in 1924 (approved in 1918) and after that the King Fahd edition in Saudi Arabia.

Comparing the Egyptian edition to the oldest available Quran, the Tashkent Quran, will show that there have been many human errors in the Tashkent Quran that has to be corrected when the Egyptian edition was made. The errors were obvious because the Quran has always been completely memorized and kept in its oral transmission to these days and can be verified against any written book. It is impossible to consider that God meant to preserve and protect the written books for example by Uthman (the Tashkent Quran), or any other human being for this matter when they are full of human errors. God's promise is to provide the mean to verify any written Quran against what He has in the Master tablets as we see in 85:21-22. God's promise to preserve the correct Quran was proved when the written manuscript of the Tashkent manuscript can be verified against the memorized Quran. This proof was then strengthened and confirmed by a mathematical structure in the Quran discovered in 1974. That year 1974, which happens to be 1406 Hijri year after the revelation of the Quran (1406 = 19 X 74), was a milestone in proving that the Quran passed down to us in the oral and written form has been preserved and verifiable. This mathematical structure that is based on number19 and described in sura 74 , confirmed the accuracy of the transmitted Quran and allowed the confirmation of any written Quran and exposed the "always suspicious" two verses of sura 9 as false.

The human errors in Uthman's copy of the Quran shows that the scribes were no more than human beings who made mistakes and their writings are not holy writings. Only the Quran, as God keeps it, is HOLY and intact and from it He will guarantee for us the accuracy of future copies of the Quran. It is of importance to mention that all these human errors in the early writings of the Quran did not change the message of the Quran and were easily detectable. After all, the Quran is a message, worship God alone, and not just another pretty book of literature.

Answer 9

Allah has promised to gurad the Qur'an Himself. So no doubts in its corruption. Secondly the translation is basically the interpretation the moment someone interpret it, it does not remain as the word of GOD. but mostly Qur'an can be interpreted without any errors or disputes. There are some words in Qur'an which can have more than one meaning or there no one knows their meaning and about those words ALLAH knows better.

15:9 Behold, it is We Ourselves who have bestowed from on high, step by step, this reminder? and, behold, it is We who shall truly guard it [from all corruption].

Answer 10

Oh Really?
The 20 Versions of the Qur’an today.
http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-quran-changed-20-versions.htm