Can anybody guess what was the Colour of the Goat that ate the Holy Quran verses?

Question

This question is in addition to my previous question, where it was established from sources of Islam and writings of Islamic scholars, that a Goat had actually aten some verses of the Quran before it was complied by Abu bakr after the death of the Prophet (PBUH).

Sources are given in previous question.

So what colour Goat?

Answer 1

Interesting. I went back and found your previous post. Although I've read a bit regarding the origins of the Quran, I've never heard of the goat incident before. I do keep several goats and can attest that they will eat almost anything. A sheet of paper, even without the sacred verses, would disappear in two seconds! I understand, in Abu Bakr's time, some verses were saved precisely because they were memorized by one or more of Mohammad's (PBUH) followers. I presume that the missing goat-verses were not among those recovered.

I have no real idea of the guilty goat's color, but will guess it was a Black Nubian. (Ancient breed, frequently black.)

Answer 2

I never heard that verses of Quran were eaten by a goat. God made Prophet and His companion memorize verses of Quran immediately as these were revealed to Prophet. Muslims always carried and preserved entire Quran in the hearts and minds/memories. Even if entire Quran was eaten by any animals, still it was safe and preserved by Muslims.
Quran is still as was revealed over 1400 years ago and will remain intact as original until the Day of Judgment. God Himself has taken charge of protecting and preserving it as He says in Quran. Muslims will print it again if all copies of Quran in the entire world are burned by enimies.

Answer 3

What a story!

It wouldn't have mattered if a goat had eaten some of the verses written on a piece of paper, or whatever.

At the time of the death of Prophet Muhammad (God bless him and grant him peace) the entire Qur'an had already been memorized by hundreds of people. Please read the article at the link below.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/compilationbrief.html

One of the miracles of the Holy Qur'an is that it has been preserved two ways:

1. in writing

2. in the living memories of Muslims. Today, millions of Muslims have memorized the Holy Qur'an, and tested their memories, not only against written copies of the Qur'an, but also against the memories of others who had memorized it before, who had tested their memory against the memories of others who had memorized it before, etc., in chains of transmission back to Prophet Muhammad himself (God bless him and grant him peace.) There can be no reasonable doubt that the Holy Qur'an we have today is identical in every letter to the original revelation.

Answer 4

Same colour goat ate parts of Paul's letters and when they put them back together they mixed up parts of Second Conrinthians. Bad Goat!

Answer 5

Sounds weak to me that a deity would allow it's words in the making to be eaten. Perhaps these wear the words that actually had proof for them being true?

Answer 6

I would guess tan. That's probably the same goat
featured in the Irish song "An puc ar buile".

Answer 7

It was the goat with a thousand young, wasn't it?

Answer 8

The colour of your skin i guess !!


Stop fabricating such rubbish !

Answer 9

Since they were on LSD at the time, I would say green and blue?

Answer 10

Are u kiddin' me...
no such thing happened...
stop it...