{"id":94551,"date":"2026-06-03T10:21:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=94551"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:24:00","slug":"two-simple-textual-variants-in-the-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/03\/two-simple-textual-variants-in-the-quran\/","title":{"rendered":"Two simple textual variants in the Qur&#8217;an"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whenever I mention that there are different versions of the Qur&#8217;an, I&#8217;m asked for examples. Here are my three favourites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Qu&#8217;ran 10:16<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would it have been made known to you, or not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>If Allah had willed, I would not have recited it to you, He\u00a0would\u00a0have made it known to you\u2026<\/em>\u00a0(Qunbul)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>If Allah had willed, I would not have recited it to you, He would\u00a0<strong>NOT<\/strong>\u00a0have made it known to you\u2026<\/em>\u00a0(Hafs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Qu&#8217;ran 37:12 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who was surprised?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cBut <strong>I (Allah)<\/strong> wonder, while they mock\u201d<\/em><strong> <\/strong>(Khalaf from Hamza)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cBut <strong>YOU (Muhammad) <\/strong>wonder, while they mock\u201d<\/em><strong> <\/strong>(Hafs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Qu&#8217;ran 2:184<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you skip a fast, how many poor people do you have to feed? One or more?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For those who can only fast with extreme difficulty, compensation can be made by feeding a needy <strong>person<\/strong> <\/em>(Hafs)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For those who can only fast with extreme difficulty, compensation can be made by feeding needy <strong>people <\/strong><\/em>(Warsh)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I mention that there are different versions of the Qur&#8217;an, I&#8217;m asked for examples. Here are my three favourites: Qu&#8217;ran 10:16 Would it have been made known to you, or not? If Allah had willed, I would not have recited it to you, He\u00a0would\u00a0have made it known to you\u2026\u00a0(Qunbul) If Allah had willed, I would not have recited it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94551","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\/94551","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=94551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94556,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94551\/revisions\/94556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}