1. Scriptures and the difficulty of
preserving it!
The world is indebted. to the righteous souls who
search the Truth
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2. …Oh Lord, the Creator of All,
seen and unseen with Power and
Knowledge of the seen , unseen,
past, present and future, open all
our Hearts to the Truth and
Guide Us All to the Straight Path.
Amen
The series of Booklets that have been produced is
to remove misconception on Islam, and see ways
and means to find the similarities in the Great
Masters Teachings, through the available
Scriptures, and to prevent Mischief.
We hope you will enjoy reading them, and also
find useful n Truthful Information that will help us
as a Society to live in Peace, whatever our
differences in Beliefs, Practices and
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3. History of Religious Books
How it came into Existence
Hinduism
hinduwebsite.com/vedicsection/aboutvedas.asp
The Veda is the oldest Scripture of Hinduism. . Even today
many scholars tend to define a person as a Hindu only if he or
she accepts the authority of the Vedas. Most of the hymns in the
Vedas do not make sense today because of the changes that took
place in the Vedic religion in the last 3000 years. We have no
idea how much of the Vedas were compromised and how much
of it was kept intact. We know for sure that many of the ancient
gods were sacrificed to keep the tradition alive and the priests
in power. Whatever might be the truth, the Vedas constitute the
base as well as the hub of the Hindu tradition
We give below short history of Faiths. The immense sacrifice
by righteous person's to put oral preaching to paper could be
understood by the details in the booklet.
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4. Buddhism
http://dharmastudy.org/essays/the-pali-canon/
No one knows what language the Buddha actually used to
deliver his teachings. It's almost certain that the discourses
recorded in the Pali Canon are not verbatim transcripts of the
Buddha's words. First, there is the sheer size of the canon; the
Sutta Pitaka itself is considerably larger than the Old
Testament, the New Testament, and the Koran combined.
Considered simply as a treasure trove, full of wonderful stories
and thought-provoking lessons, the Pali Canon contains a lot of
treasure.Sri Lanka adopted the Buddha's Dharma eagerly, and
it was in that island kingdom, under the sponsorship of King
Vattagamani, that the Fourth Buddhist Council was held, in
about 200BCE, with the express purpose of committing the
teachings to writing. Once again, the council heard the
recitation of the entire body of teachings; by this time, with
various accretions, the whole thing took over six months to
recite, and it had become virtually impossible for a single
bhikkhu to memorize in its entirety. So, in order that the
teachings would not be lost, the bhikkhus of the Fourth Council
undertook to write the whole thing down.
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5. Christianity
http://www.allabouttruth.org/origin-of-the-bible.htm http://www.bible-
r e s e a r c h e r . c o m / r s v p r e f a c e . h t m l
The King James Version has with good reason been termed "the
noblest monument of English prose." …..Yet the King James
Version has grave defects. By the middle of the nineteenth century,
the development of Biblical studies and the discovery of many
manuscripts more ancient than those upon which the King James
Version was based, made it manifest that these defects are so many
and so serious as to call for revision of the English translation.
http://www.premiercommunity.org.uk/group/unbelievable/forum/topics/1-year-later-b-
s t r o n g -
is?page=2&commentId=2060181%3AComment%3A1104359&x=1#2060181Comment
1104359
Vincint Bulgiosi (the famed prosecutor who prosecuted the
notorious “killer” Charles Manson) states in his new book: Divinity
of Doubt; The God Question (in chapter 2)“Christian writings would
be inadmissible “in court” because they all constitute hearsay and
are not properly authenticated. Since a jury would not be allowed to
consider such documents, these historic texts must also be denied
admission in the courtroom of the mind of the seeker.” World expert
Dr. Bart Ehrman bolsters that shocking statement with his own
shocking confession: “we don't even have a copy of a copy of a copy
of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy, etc, etc, etc, of any original
book of the New Testament!”
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6. Islam
The Quran is preserved in its original form. The Quran was revealed
over 23 years period, to the Prophet (pbuh) by angel Gabriel. He was
an illiterate person, of very noble character, and he committed the
Revelation to memory.
In fact all the Believers were forced to commit to memory as it was
recited 5times a day in the Prayers. At the time of his death, over tens
of thousands knew it by memory, and today there is easily over 10-15
million who know the Quran by memory cover to cover. All of them
live in every part of the world!
The writing of the Quran was undertaken by the Prophet(pbuh)
himself by a team of scribes. It was meticously done, by him
personally rechecking it, by listening to its recital.
The phenomenal spread of Islam during the Caliphate made it
necessary to have a Quran in every area as the it was perhaps
envisaged that memory alone would not be sufficient in lands where
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they did not know Arabic. Accordingly the 3Caliph Osman got few
originals written based on the certified manuscript and certified them,
from which today's copies are made. As a wise and God fearing
person he saw to it that all other writings of the Quran was destroyed,
thus preserving the Originality of God's Word.
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7. Today the Museums, Mosques, Bookstores all have the same Quran
duplicated to the very last dot, and is IDENTICAL to the
hundreds of millions who recite it daily in their 5 Prayers daily!
Check it out: Buy a Quran, borrow one from a Mosque or
colleague or simply go On Line. Note the Arabic will be all
identical, translations will be basically the same, only slightly
differ based which period it was translated, and the personality of
the translator.
Hadith these are, sayings, practices of the Prophet(pbuh)
essentially to explain the Quran, and the way of life GOD expects
from us, in order to have Peace and Harmony among fellow
Humans and all Created Matter. You will be surprised as the
science of Hadith and the dedication of people, and the extent God
fearing people go to preserve those teachings
Finally what does the Quran say
1. This is the Book, about which there is no doubt, a guidance for
those conscious of Allah*-2:2* ALLAH is an Arabic word that gives
the full meaning of the Creator of all that exists. In short Allah is
uncreated, unborn, formless, all powerful and beyond ones
imagination
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8. 2. Indeed, it is We who sent down the message, and indeed, We will
be its guardian-15:9
3. praise be to Allah, who hath sent to his Servant the Book, and hath
allowed therein no crookedness18:1
4. And We have indeed made the Quran easy to and understand and
remember; Then is there any that will receive admonition?-54:17
5. Let there be no compulsion in religion. Truth stands out Clear
from error-2:256
6. Leave alone those who take their religion to be mere play and
amusement, and are deceived by
the life of this world-6:70
7. O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: nor
say of Allah aught but the truth4:171
8. He has chosen you, and imposed no difficulties on you in
religion; it is the religion of your father Abraham-22:78
9. Revile not ye , those whom they call upon besides Allah, lest
they out of spite revile Allah out their ignorance-6:108
10. Say “We believe in Allah, and in what he has revealed to us, and
what Was revealed to Abraham, Ismail, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in
the Books given to Moses, Jesus and the Prophets, from their Lord;
we make no distinction between one another among them ,and to
Allah do we bow our will-3:84
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9. 11. If anyone desires a religion other than Islam(submission to the
will of the Creator) Never will it be accepted-3:85
12. For We assuredly sent amongst every People a Messenger-
16:36
Islamic Prayer: They pray 5 times a day, the call for prayer is
called Azan and it reads thus:
Allahu Akbar-God is Great(4 times)
Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah - I bear witness that there is no god
except the One God.(2times)
Ashadu anna Muhammadan Rasool Allah - I bear witness that
Muhammad is the messenger of God.(2times)
Hayya 'ala-s-Salah - Hurry to the prayer (2 times)
Hayya 'ala-l-Falah - Hurry to success (2times)
Allahu Akbar-God is Great [2times]
La ilaha illa Allah - There is no god except the One God
Prayer: All muslims must Glorify and seek guidance in the
following manner in Arabic in each prayer. Note the powerful
meaning, which each one of us could easily include in our Prayer
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10. In the name of GOD, the Beneficent, the Merciful Praise be to
GOD, Lord of the Worlds, The Beneficent, the Merciful. Owner
of the Day of Judgment, Thee (alone) we worship; Thee (alone)
we ask for help. Guide us on the straight path, The path of
those whom Thou hast favored; Not (the path) of those who earn
Thine anger nor of those who go astray.(1 : 1-7)
Further Reading & Videos
Quran & Bible in the light of Science - Dr William Campbell & Dr
Zakir Naik
http://www.discoveringislam.org/naik_vs_campbell.htm
The preservation of the Quran
By: Dr. Bilal Philips
The Qur'an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in
sections throughout the twenty-three years of his prophethood.
THE ERA OF THE PROPHET (PBUH) 609-632 CE
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11. The Qur'an was the main miracle given to Prophet Muhammad
(PBUH) to prove that he was a true prophet of Allah(this the
Arabic name for GOD, even used in the Arabic Bible) and not an
imposter. So, the Qur'an had to be saved to prove to the later
generations that Muhammad (PBUH) was really the last prophet
of Allah.
One of the leading orientalists, Kenneth Cragg, said the
following regarding the memorization and preservation of the
Qur'anic text, “This phenomenon of Qur'anic recital means that
the text has traversed the centuries in an unbroken living
sequence of devotion. It cannot, therefore, be handled as an
antiquarian thing, nor as a historical document out of a distant
past.” Another orientalist scholar, William Graham, wrote: “For
countless millions of Muslims over more than fourteen centuries
of Islamic history, 'scripture', al-kitab, has been a book learned,
read and passed on by vocal repetition and memorisation. The
written Qur'an may 'fix' visibly the authoritative text of the Divine
Word in a way unknown in history, but the authoritativeness of
the Qur'anic book is only realized in its fullness and perfection
when it is correctly recited.”
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12. Yet another, John Burton, stated: “The method of transmitting the
Qur'an from one generation to the next by having the young
memorize the oral tradition of their elders had mitigated
somewhat from the beginning the worst perils of relying solely on
written records...” At the end of a voluminous work on the
Qur'an's collection, Burton stated that the text of the Qur'an
available today is “the text which has come down to us in the form
in which it was organised and approved by the Prophet....What
we have today in our hands is the mus-haf of Muhammad.”
With every succeeding generation of Muslims, the numbers of
those who memorized all of the Qur'an has increased. Today there
are literally millions of Muslims throughout the world who have
done so.
There is no other book, religious or otherwise, which has been
memorized on this scale in recorded history. The Qur'an is about
four-fifths the length of the New Testament of the Christians, yet
not a single person in recorded history is known to have
memorized the New Testament completely. In fact, if all of the
books in the world were somehow destroyed, the only book
which could be rewritten, word for word, without a single
mistake is the Glorious Qur'an.
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13. The Qur'an has been preserved in both the oral as well as
written form in a way no other religious book in history has.
Why did Allah preserve the Qur'an and allow His earlier books of
divine revelation to be changed or lost? The answer to that
question lies in the following facts:
1. The earlier prophets and their books were sent to a particular
people in particular periods of history. Once the period ended, a
new prophet was sent with a new book to replace the previous
book. So, it was not necessary that these books be preserved by
Allah. The preservation of the earlier books was left up to the
people as a test for them. Thus, when the people went astray, they
changed what was written in the books which their prophets
brought in order to make allowable the things which were
forbidden to them. In that way, all of the earlier books of
revelation became either changed or lost.
2. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was the last prophet whom
Allah sent, and he was not sent to a particular people or a
particular time. He was sent to all of mankind until the end of the
world. Allah said in the Qur'an, “I have only sent you
(Muhammad) as a giver of glad tidings and a warner to all
mankind, but most men do not understand.” 34:28
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14. Thus, his book of revelation, the Qur'an, had to be specially
preserved from any form of change or loss so that it would be
available to all the generations of man until the last day of the
world.The significance of the Qur'an's preservation is that Islam
has been kept in its original purity because of it. Humanity can
always return to the sources of Islam no matter what people may
have added or forgotten in time. All of the essential principles of
Islam are to be found in the Qur'an. Consequently, the
preservation of the Qur'an meant the preservation of Islam in its
final form. The loss of the Gospel of Jesus means that Christians
can never return to the true teachings of Prophet Jesus except by
accepting Islam. (The Five Gospels, pp. 2-16)
Similarly, the original Torah was lost when Solomon's Temple in
Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians.[ The New
Encyclopedia Britannica, vol. 14, p. 7578] Thus, the Jews cannot
return to the pure teachings of Prophet Moses except by following
Islam.
It is only in Islam that the pure teachings of the prophets have been
preserved without any change. That is why Allah said in the
Qur'an,
“Verily, the only acceptable religion to Allah is Islam.”
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15. During the Holy Prophet's Life
- Committee of the Scribes
-People used to commit it to their hearts
During the first thirteen years of his ministry at Makkah, the
Prophet Muhammad used to read out the revealed passages to the
small group of his followers and non-believers. His followers
used to commit the revelation to their hearts.
Hadhrat Zayd was the full time Secretary of the Committee of
the Scribes. On receiving a verse or verses from Allah, the Holy
Prophet used to call one of the members of the committee and get
it dictated. Then the written passage was read out to the Prophet
and was corrected and approved by him.
The Qur'an was being revealed in accordance with the needs of
the different stages of the prophetic mission. It was however not
compiled in the chronological order of its revelation. While
compiling and arranging it, the Qur'an was given a new order,
which was to have a meaningful coherence for the readers in
future. Whenever the Prophet dictated a newly revealed passage
of the Qur'an to the Scribes, he used to direct them regarding the
placement of that passage in the Qur'an as well.
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16. Thus the entire Qur'an was systematically recorded and arranged
on written material during the lifetime of the Prophet. However
the Qur'an was recorded not in one volume but on tanned hides,
stone tablets, wooden tablets, pieces of cloth etc. One complete
set of the Qur'an was with the with the Holy Prophet. It was
placed in the Mosque of the Prophet (Masjid an-Nabawi) from
where any one was free to make a copy for himself or to refer to it
in case he wished to memorize it.
It appears that the official copy, although complete, checked, and
approved by the Prophet was available in the life of the Holy
Prophet, yet it was not bound in one volume (bayn al-lawhayn).
The Holy Qur'an constituted the life blood of the early Muslim
community during the life of Holy Prophet. It was recited five
times a day, people used to commit it to their hearts and used to
study it with utmost care and concentration.
People were graded and appreciated on the basis of their
knowledge and the extent of the Qur'an that they had memorized.
All affairs of the state as well as the social life of Arabia were
governed in the light of the provisions of the Qur'an. All civil
servants, military commanders and judges used to seek guidance
from the Qur'an.
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17. During the Prophet's life time, when he used to send governors
and judges to far off places, he used to instruct them that they
have to govern and decide in the light of the Qur'an. These facts
show that Qur'an was alive in that society not because of written
manuscripts but as a necessity of faith and an inevitable source
of guidance for social, political and legal affairs.
It is also natural to believe that he could not neglect the task
of its preservation. One of the primary missions of the Holy
Prophet was to deliver the divine message to mankind. This
message consisted of the Holy Qur'an. He could not shift this
responsibility to later generations.
HADITH
The importance of hadith: Sunnah also means the Prophet's way
of life. The Prophet (saaw) was a walking Quran. He was the
manifestation of Quran on earth. And the companions were very
aware of this. This is why they accompanied him. This is why
they have the title Companions of the Prophet (saaw). The term
Companion is not used loosely. Not everyone who became a
believer at the time of the Prophet (saaw) is a companion,
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18. only those who got to to meet him (except for one man whom the
Prophet (saaw) referred to him as a companion even though he
could not come and meet the prophet saaw).
The Companions of the Prophet (saaw) realized his value and so
they put an unbelievable amount of effort to be with him and to
record and cherish everything he said and did. Omar (raa) had a
deal with another companion that they would alternate, one
would go out and work to provide for his family while the other
would stay with the prophet and record all that he said and did. At
the end of the day they would share what they learned.
Abu Hurairah is another example. Though he became a Muslim
fairly late in the Prophet's years of Prophethood, yet he has the
most narrations of all the Prophet's companions. It is because as
soon as he became a Muslim, he became one of Ahlu-Suffah
(poor companions who stayed at the mosque of the Prophet saaw)
and he dedicated his life to accompanying the Prophet (saaw) and
learning from him. So much so that some companions have
tested him because of his many narrations and he passed their
tests..
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19. This tradition was kept so closely that if the Prophet (saaw) did
something in the original tradition, the narrators through out
time have did the exact same thing. There is a whole category of
hadith called Al-Musalsalat in which the narrator would say and
then the prophet (saaw) did this.. and he would the exact same
thing the prophet (saaw) did. For example, smile, or shake hands
or entwine ones fingers with anothers fingers (tashbeek). This is
how precise these people maintained that tradition, that even if
the Prophet (saaw) would do a gesture they would be sure to
mention it and repeat it.
The need for the science of hadith: Hadith Ranking: The ranks of
hadith were devised by scholars of hadith to evaluate the chain
and the body of the hadith and give it a rank that helps weed out
fabricated a hadith. It should be noted that even these rankings
are not absolute. Some scholars of hadith were more strict than
others. The scholars of hadith themselves are ranked as
moderate such as Al-Zhahabi, strict such as Ibn Al-Jawzi and
Ad-Daraqutani and Lenient such as Al-Hakim.
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20. HOW MANY HADITHS ?
The number of hadiths collected and attributed to the prophet
Muhammed is in the hundreds of thousands. As much as 99% of all
these hundreds of thousands hadiths are pure lies and fabrications
and were rejected by the early Muslim scholars who thought they
can figure out which hadith is authentic and which is not. Let us look
at some of the famous hadiths collectors and what they collected.
(1) Malik Ibn Anas collected about 500 hadiths in his famous book,
"Al-Muwattaa"
(2) Ahmed Ibn Hanbal, collected about 40,000 hadiths, in his
famous "Musnad".He chose these 40,000 hadiths from among
700,000 hadiths.
(3) Bukhary collected about 600,000 hadiths and accepted 7275
hadiths.
(4)Moslem collected 300,000 hadiths and only accepted 4000 of
them.
This will give you an idea of how much corruption entered or tried to
enter Islam(gives an idea for other Religions too.) from the back
door. Now we should understand why God promised to preserve,
protect and safeguard His book, the ONLY authentic hadith, the
ONLY acceptable hadith, the BEST HADITH, the Quran
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21. Authentication of Hadith: Why Authenticate hadith? Why go
through all the different ranks and levels and scrutiny of each
narrator?
The main reason was to preserve hadith from being corrupted
and altered by ideological and political influence. That is, to
protect hadith from fabrication. Fabrication had many reasons,
some were political, some were simply personal interest. Still,
once the fear of people making up ahadith and attributing them
to the prophet became a real one, scholars of religion began to
dedicate themselves to preservation of the prophetic traditions.
Terminology of the scholars of hadith:
Just so that can get a picture of the amount of work and dedication
these scholars put into their work, let us look at the titles and ranks
they hold:
A scholar who is called a Hujjah of hadith is one who memorizes at
least 300,000 ahadith. A Hafiz is one who memorizes 100,000. A
Hakim is one who memorizes all of the known ahadith.
If you find these numbers amazing. Consider this.. Imam Ahmad
memorized one thousand thousand ahadith (not a type, that is one
million). He said of them he knew 700,000+ that were Sahih.
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22. Abu Zara Ar-Razi memorized 700,00 ahadith. Muslim
memorized 140,000 on Tafseer (explanation of Quran) and
300,000 ahadith in total. Imam Bukhari memorized 100,000
Sahih hadith and 200,000 that were not Sahih.
A final point to think about is that despite all their work, the
scholars of hadith are still scholars of hadith. Being a scholar of
hadith does not automatically make one a scholar of Fiqh
(Islamic Jurisprudence). An obvious example of this is Al-Amash
who was one of the greatest scholars of hadith in the time of Imam
Abu Hanifah. And when he was asked on a certain matter he said
he knew no hadith on this matter. Yet Abu Hanifah gave a fatwah
on this matter based on a hadith that he proclaimed that he heard
from al-Amash. When Al-Amash inquired from Imam Abu
Hanifah, the Imam explained to him how he used one of the
ahadith that Al-Amash told him to view this and Al-Amash said
We (the scholars of hadith) are like the Pharmacists and you (the
scholars of Fiqh) are like the Doctors.
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