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Arabic Quran: 31 differents books!


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Muslims claim there is only ONE Qur'an in existence in the world today. Dr Jay Smith and al Fadi destroy that notion completely in this 22-minute episode.  One of Jay's colleagues, Hatun Tash, has been able to purchase 31 different Arabic Qur'ans in countries like Yemen, Jordan and Morocco.  So, how are they different? They have different dottings above and below the line. All of these dots were added to the texts in the 8th and 9th centuries, over 144 years and more after Uthman supposedly created the final canonized text of the Qur'an.  What's more these 31 different Qur'ans disagree with each other almost 60,000 times, proving that they are not at all the same Qur'an.  Now Muslims will say that these differing dots don't change the meaning of the texts at all. So Dr Smith and al Fadi decided to see if this was so, and only looked at around 20 examples of these different texts, proving that in every case, not only did they change what was being said, but often they changed the theology between the two texts as well.  So, what have we done in these 9 episodes:  We started with the two compilations written down (the first by Ab Bakr, the second by Uthman), referred to by the earliest traditions.   These traditions also tell us that once the final copy was finished, all of the other copies of the Qur'an which disagreed were burned, and that copies of the final canonised text, authorised by Uthman, were sent to 9 different provinces, yet we can't find even one of them today.  Of the 6 earliest manuscripts of the Qur'an which are extant today (including the Topkapi, the Samarkand, The Ma'il, the Petropolitanus, the Husaini, and the Sana'a codices), not one of them is from the 7th century, not one of them is complete, not one of them completely agrees with each other, and not one of them agrees completely with the Qur'an which we use today!  Jay and Al Fadi zeroed in on the lower layer of the Sana'a Palimpsest, which could be from the 7th century, though it only included 63 verses; yet, it had 70 manuscript variants when compared to the upper layer, and when compared with the Qur'an which we are using today. Dr Elizabeth Puin believes that this is proof of a nascent (earlier Qur'an), which was wiped off and then re-written over top around 705 AD to make way for a corrected text, suggesting human intervention from the very outset of the Qur'ans creation.


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