Are you sure the koran couldnt possible had been altered?

Question

After the death of Muhammad no one knew the entire Koran by heart. Many Arabs revolted against Abu Bakr and had to be forcibly put down. The greatest opposition came from Maslama (a.k.a. Musailima) who claimed to be a prophet but was executed by Abu Bakr. Then 'Umar asked Zaid ibn Thabit to collate the Koran. The suras were arranged from longest to shortest, as even then the chronological order was imperfectly known. That codex was given to Hafsa. Other scholars also compiled their own codices. These became sources of contention because they different from one another. So,'Uthman asked Zaid to write another codex and all the others were destroyed despite a fair amount of grumbling by their compilers. The variations between the codices could not be variations of dialect, as at this point the Arabic script could not express such variations, being both unvowelled and unpointed. The distinctives of the destroyed codices have survived somewhat in oral tradition.
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Ibn K'ab's codex contains two extra suras (similar to al-fatiha) and Ibn Masu'd has a different order and omits suras 1, 113, and 114. Ibn Mas'ud seriously opposed the use of Zaid's codex over his own, arguing that he [ibn Mas'ud] had been a disciple of Muhammad for longer and knew the Koran better than Zaid. Even after the production of Zaid's codex a great variety of different readings (extending to meaning and not just pronunciation) were possible through different means of pointing and vowelling. Eventually seven systems of pointing [each with two systems of vowelling] were considered valid.

Answer 1

The actual Koran itself is pretty well immaterial. It doesn't matter what it says, people twist it to suit their purposes.

Most of the modern/moderate Muslims talk about peace and love and coexisting with other religions. They ignore the passages that talk about the virtue of "holy war" and forcibly converting others.
They forget their own history, with Mohammad leading raiders to force Mecca to accept his religion and sending others out to conquer or butcher everything they could.

Answer 2

Yes, I am 100% sure.
I don't know where you're getting your information from..
but after prophet Mohammad passed away, more than 10 men knew the Quran by heart. after some of them died or were killed, Othman bin Affan had all the surahs (verses) of the quran put together.
there are only some differences in the way of pronouncing some words, and these differences were before prophet Muhammad died, and they were approved by him. the cause of these differences is that many non arabs were embracing Islam, and they had different accents, because they didn't speak Arabic.

If u believe in the content of the quran, God says in it that He keeps the quran from being changed.
this is so because it is the last book that God will send to people.
All the attempts to alter it throughout history have faild and will always fail.

Answer 3

Most religious texts have been altered. From the Koran to the Bible. Most of the stories were told from one person to another untill someone wrote it all down. There are grains of truth in all religious texts. The problem occurrs only when someone feels that they are the only ones who intrepereted it correctly, and try and make others see it the same way.
All religious writing can, and many times are, twisted to benefit the person who is using it for their own purpose.

Answer 4

No, I am not. Glad you asked me that question, though

Does that mean that muslims would not be killing so many people everywhere ?

Answer 5

Of course its been altered. So has every other religious text in the world. It boggles my mind how anyone takes them seriously as "historical documents" or "ultimate truth"

Answer 6

It probably was! Please make that your next task and report back when you've finished. I'd like to know the answer! Thanks.