http://www.faithfreedom.org/2009/06/30/the-quran-and-hadith-which-is-more-authentic/#comments
15. Ibn Kammuna Says:
June 30th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
I do appreciate Ahmadis and their peaceful way of life.
Now, I would like to ask you something: When you look at how the Qur’an was collected, and compare it to how the Hadith was collected, the conclusion that Mr. Mumin Salih reaches is valid. Hadith is more reliable than the Qur’an.
Paarsurrey says:
Hi friend Ibn Kammuna
I appreciate your words of sympathy for Ahmadis, who are being persecuted by ignorant Traditional Muslims for nothing. May God Allah YHWH bless you!
Quran is Word of God revealed/descended on the heart of Muhammad under a remarkable natural system, which no other “Book” in this world has ever had; and that also proves that it is not authored by Muhammad; but it is from God Allah YHWH.
I don’t agree with the information given by Mumin Saleh about the collection of Quran in his write up in the beginning of this discussion. I would like to mention the way the Quran was revealed and that would also dispel any doubts in the mind of viewers of this discussion about Quran:
The text of none of the sacred Scriptures, claimed to
have been revealed before the Quran, has been preserved intact.
They have all been interfered with to such an extent that an
earnest seeker after truth finds it impossible to adopt any of
them as a practical guide for right conduct. In contrast with
this, the text of the Quran has been preserved intact and every
word of it has come down to us as free from interference and
interpolation as when it was revealed to the Holy Prophet
one thousand four hundred years ago.
The Quran began to be revealed at the outset of the Mission
of the Holy Prophet. The first revelation, comprising only a
few verses, was received by him in the Hira Cave. Thereafter
the revelation continued till his death. Thus the total period
during which the entire Quran was revealed extended to
twenty-three years.
We know, on the basis of the testimony of
his contemporaries, that in the beginning revelation came to the
Prophet at intervals and in small bits, but as time passed it
grew both in volume and in frequency till in the last years
of his life it swelled into an almost continuous stream.
One reason for this, among others, was that the teachings contained
in this revelation were altogether novel and it was not easy
for people to grasp their full significance. Therefore the Quran
was revealed in small portions in the beginning. But after
the basic principles of Islam had been fully grasped and it
became comparatively easy for people to understand the teachings
and the topics dealt with in the Quran, the revelation began
to arrive faster and in larger volume.
The object was that all
Muslims should be enabled fully to grasp the teachings of the
Quran. Another reason was that the number of Muslims was
very small in the beginning and, as God intended that the text
of the Quran should be scrupulously preserved and that it
should not become the subject of any doubt, only small portions
were revealed at a time in the beginning and there was always
an interval, sometimes extending to several months, between
the revelation of one group of verses and the next.
In this manner the few Muslims were enabled to commit the whole
revelation to memory, so as to place the matter of the preservation
of the text beyond doubt. When the number of Muslims
began to increase and the safe-guarding and preservation of the
text of the Quran became easier, the revelation began to arrive
faster.
Towards the close of the Holy Prophet’s life the number
of Muslims exceeded a hundred thousand and the memorizing
of the Quran became very easy. At that time the revelation
came faster still. By this divine plan the purity of the text of
the Quran was placed beyond doubt.
During the Caliphate of ‘Uthman seven copies of the Quran
were despatched to different parts of the Muslim world and they
in turn became the standard texts from which other copies were
made and thereafter in each generation hundreds of thousands
of people have been in the habit of committing the entire text
of the Quran to memory.
Even the bitterest enemies of Islam
do not allege that any interference with the text of the Quran has
taken place since the time of ‘Uthman. Those who seek to
raise doubts regarding the purity of the text of the Quran direct
their criticism to the period between the death of the Holy
Prophet and the Caliphate of ‘Uthman.
Whenever any portion of the Quran was revealed to the Holy
Prophet, he used to commit it to memory and, as he continuously
recited the Quran from one end to the other, he always
carried the whole of the revealed Quran at all times in his
memory. In addition to this the following devices were
adopted for safe-guarding and preserving intact the text of
the Quran :
http://www.alislam.org/library/books/Introduction-Study-Holy-Quran.pdf
I think it reasonably explains that the text of the Quran as spoken by God Allah YHWH to Muhammad is secure without any doubt.
Love for all; hatred for none.
Thanks
I am an Ahmadi peaceful Muslim
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