{"id":90129,"date":"2025-12-18T11:35:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=90129"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:35:32","slug":"perfect-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2025\/12\/18\/perfect-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a question I ask whenever I meet a Muslim who claims that the Qur&#8217;an has been perfectly preserved by Allah&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the Qur&#8217;an was always perfectly preserved, then why were perfectly preserved Qur&#8217;ans burned? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the Qur&#8217;an had been perfectly memorized, why does the hadith describe its compilation as it does? If the Qur&#8217;an was already committed to memory then the production of a manuscript would have been the easiest thing in the world &#8211; just assemble a few who had memorized it, put them in separate houses with a scribe for a few days. Then just confirm that the texts are identical and the job is done! But this isn&#8217;t what we see in the hadith&#8230; we see the hunting for scraps, collections with a different number of chapters, memories of missing chapters, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a question I ask whenever I meet a Muslim who claims that the Qur&#8217;an has been perfectly preserved by Allah&#8230; If the Qur&#8217;an was always perfectly preserved, then why were perfectly preserved Qur&#8217;ans burned? If the Qur&#8217;an had been perfectly memorized, why does the hadith describe its compilation as it does? If the Qur&#8217;an was already committed to memory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90130,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90129\/revisions\/90130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}