It appears that the Christian missionaries like to bring the already refuted topics time and again as if we Muslims have a very short memory. The Christian missionary Jochen Katz’s recent use of the services of Samuel Green’s article The Seven Readings of the Qur’an is one such example.
The statement of the Samuel Green indicated with ‘>’ is the older one and the one which is new does not contain ‘>’ after he updated the article.
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It has become a standard method of deception by Christian missionaries like Jochen Katz to superficially project issues that have been exhaustively addressed by both Muslims and Orientialsts, as we will see soon, inshallah. These missionaries are well aware of the difference between a transmission and a text (to be discussed in detail below). Yet, they intentionally replace one with the other in order to give the false impression to lay readers that the Qur’an exists in different texts. Thus, in order to address the questions of Hafs and Warsh, we will first offer a short introduction to the key concepts involved herein and then proceed to the heart of the matter, inshallah. However, before we begin this article, we would like to sincerely thank brother Moustafa Mounir Elqabbany from Canada and brother Muhammad Ghoniem from France, for providing valuable references. May Allah reward them profusely for their kind help. The contents of this document are divided as follows:
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It has been claimed by Christian missionaries at their website that some Shi’ite’s have two more chapters in their Qur’an called Surah al-Nurayn and Surah al-Walayah. Regarding the Surah al-Walayah, they used to say [obviously deleted now!]:
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Much have been said about Shi’ites’ attitude toward the lie of Qur’anic corruption and the authenticity of the Qur’an. Some Sunnis have emotionally discussed this issue and taken it as an opportunity to discredit the Shi’ites’ beliefs and accuse them of disbelief (kufr). However, I find it necessary - out of scientific honesty and as a Sunni Muslim - to display these people’s belief concerning the issue of corruption of the Qur’an according to their own sources of utmost acceptance and authority and more importantly according to their understanding and interpretation to what is mentioned in these sources.
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It had been claimed by Orientalists and Christian missionaries that al-Hajjaj was responsible for changing the some contents of the Qur’an. The scandal surrounding al-Hajjaj is apparently based on two different traditions, one Muslim and the other Christian. The Islamic source is Kitab al-Masahif of Ibn Abi Dawud where a report mentions that al-Hajjaj made eleven changes in `Uthman’s mushaf. As for the Christian source, the prominent one is of exchange of letters between Ummayad Caliph `Umar II and the Byzantine Emperor Leo III. A less prominent writing is that of an apology attributed to `Abd al-Masih al-Kindi.
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