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Original Quran-Burning Took Place in the Mid-Seventh Century
Muslims have killed, died, protested and boycotted over the real, perceived or rumored mistreatment of the Quran, but the book they revere as the final revelation of Allah to Mohammed was a version compiled by an early caliph almost two decades after Mohammed's death. According to major Islamic sources, that caliph ordered all rival versions burned.
Thursday, September 09, 2010
By Patrick Goodenough
Quran-burning, Terry Jones
(CNSNews.com) – Muslims have killed, died, protested and boycotted over the real, perceived or rumored mistreatment of the Quran, but the book they revere as the final revelation of Allah to Mohammed was a version compiled by an early caliph almost two decades after Mohammed’s death. According to major Islamic sources, he then ordered all rival versions burned.
Muslims argue that misuse of the Quran is particularly heinous because they believe that, in the original Arabic, it is the actual divine revelation given to Mohammed over a 23-year period – something that is sacred in itself.
‘Six copies burnt’
About 18 years after Mohammed’s death in 632, Uthman bin Affan, one of his sons-in-law and the third caliph, ordered that all circulating versions of the Quran be brought to him, compiled in one standardized version, and the others burned.
The story is related in the Hadith (Islamic canon) by Sahih al-Bukhari, who recounted (in Book 61, No. 510) that there were grave concerns about Muslims fighting over the differing versions.
“So Uthman sent a message to Hafsa saying, ‘Send us the manuscripts of the Qur’an so that we may compile the Qur’anic materials in perfect copies and return the manuscripts to you,’” Bukhari wrote. (Hafsa was one of Mohammed’s 11 widows.)
After having four men draw up a standardized copy, “Uthman sent to every Muslim province one copy of what they had copied, and ordered that all the other Qur’anic materials, whether written in fragmentary manuscripts or whole copies, be burnt.”
Zakaria Botros, an Egyptian Coptic evangelist and expert on Islam, has tackled the provocative issue on his Arabic-language “Questions about faith” broadcasts.
“Uthman saw that Muslims were killing each other because of the differences or contradictions among the seven readings. You know that the Quran had seven different readings, or letters. So he ordered the Quran to be recompiled…” Botros says in the program. (audio)
“So what did Uthman do, confronted with seven different Qurans or copies, and people were killing each other because of the contradictions therein? He wanted to put an end to the fight. So what did he do? He burnt six copies, and kept only one copy … He made copies from this one copy, which was called the ‘chief copy.’ And it was sent to all the Islamic capitals at that time.”
Quran, Koran
Muslims BELIEVE the Quran, in the original Arabic, to be the infallible “final revelation” of Allah to Mohammed. (Image: Iqra)
The Christian organization Acts 17 Apologetics Ministries this week released an eight-minute videoclip examining the issue, in the light of the Florida Quran-burning controversy.
The organization’s co-directors, David Wood and Nabeel Qureshi, read excerpts from various Islamic texts on the subject, before Wood sums up, “According to Muslim sources, entire chapters of the Quran were lost, large sections of chapters have been lost, individual verses have been lost, and in the end Uthman put together what he could, put out his own official version of the Quran, and burned all of the evidence”
Qureshi then gestures to the texts before them, and says, “Wow, I sure am glad that no-one burned this evidence.”
Wood replies, “Nabeel, let’s agree that we’re never going to burn any book, no matter how much we disagree with it.”
I thought i posted some articles... it did not, so i'll copy it on here...
reference -
Original Quran-Burning Took Place in the Mid-Seventh Century
Muslims have killed, died, protested and boycotted over the real, perceived or rumored mistreatment of the Quran, but the book they revere as the final revelation of Allah to Mohammed was a version compiled by an early caliph almost two decades after Mohammed's death. According to major Islamic sources, that caliph ordered all rival versions burned.
Thursday, September 09, 2010
By Patrick Goodenough
Quran-burning, Terry Jones
(CNSNews.com) – Muslims have killed, died, protested and boycotted over the real, perceived or rumored mistreatment of the Quran, but the book they revere as the final revelation of Allah to Mohammed was a version compiled by an early caliph almost two decades after Mohammed’s death. According to major Islamic sources, he then ordered all rival versions burned.
Muslims argue that misuse of the Quran is particularly heinous because they believe that, in the original Arabic, it is the actual divine revelation given to Mohammed over a 23-year period – something that is sacred in itself.
‘Six copies burnt’
About 18 years after Mohammed’s death in 632, Uthman bin Affan, one of his sons-in-law and the third caliph, ordered that all circulating versions of the Quran be brought to him, compiled in one standardized version, and the others burned.
The story is related in the Hadith (Islamic canon) by Sahih al-Bukhari, who recounted (in Book 61, No. 510) that there were grave concerns about Muslims fighting over the differing versions.
“So Uthman sent a message to Hafsa saying, ‘Send us the manuscripts of the Qur’an so that we may compile the Qur’anic materials in perfect copies and return the manuscripts to you,’” Bukhari wrote. (Hafsa was one of Mohammed’s 11 widows.)
After having four men draw up a standardized copy, “Uthman sent to every Muslim province one copy of what they had copied, and ordered that all the other Qur’anic materials, whether written in fragmentary manuscripts or whole copies, be burnt.”
Zakaria Botros, an Egyptian Coptic evangelist and expert on Islam, has tackled the provocative issue on his Arabic-language “Questions about faith” broadcasts.
“Uthman saw that Muslims were killing each other because of the differences or contradictions among the seven readings. You know that the Quran had seven different readings, or letters. So he ordered the Quran to be recompiled…” Botros says in the program. (audio)
“So what did Uthman do, confronted with seven different Qurans or copies, and people were killing each other because of the contradictions therein? He wanted to put an end to the fight. So what did he do? He burnt six copies, and kept only one copy … He made copies from this one copy, which was called the ‘chief copy.’ And it was sent to all the Islamic capitals at that time.”
Quran, Koran
Muslims BELIEVE the Quran, in the original Arabic, to be the infallible “final revelation” of Allah to Mohammed. (Image: Iqra)
The Christian organization Acts 17 Apologetics Ministries this week released an eight-minute videoclip examining the issue, in the light of the Florida Quran-burning controversy.
The organization’s co-directors, David Wood and Nabeel Qureshi, read excerpts from various Islamic texts on the subject, before Wood sums up, “According to Muslim sources, entire chapters of the Quran were lost, large sections of chapters have been lost, individual verses have been lost, and in the end Uthman put together what he could, put out his own official version of the Quran, and burned all of the evidence”
Qureshi then gestures to the texts before them, and says, “Wow, I sure am glad that no-one burned this evidence.”
Wood replies, “Nabeel, let’s agree that we’re never going to burn any book, no matter how much we disagree with it.”
