What people fail to realize is the Qur'an was originally memorized word for word. Muhammad personally taught many people to recite the words of the Qur'an perfectly, and they in turn taught others. It wasn't until years later the words were written down into a book.BTW just looking at the history of how the Quran was compiled shows that inerrancy is impossible. The caliphs wrote it down and compiled it in a single volume after variant texts of it were going around. There is no reason to believe that the Quran as we have it is the original and not a variant texts based on what Mohammad's self proclaimed successors wanted to keep.
Still to this day, millions of muslims memorize the entire Qur'an, complete with various sentence pauses, tonal inflictions, and emphasis on certain words. Exactly, as the Prophet Muhammad first said them over 1400 years ago.
In fact, all over the Islamic world, there are still Qur'an recitation contests which are very popular among the muslim people. ....
not news, sunni dear. Anyone who has been around muslims heard this crap OVER AND OVER. Memorization of texts is not a singular ISLAMIC FEAT----it was done
before the institution of the Printing press all over the
literate world (and the less literate like DA UMMAH) ----
The Koran is not long and-----like other ancient writings---
is done in verse------which makes memorizing easier---HOWEVER----the notion that one can assume it stayed exactly the same-------is silly-----since it was not written until
100 years after the meccan rapist died. -------its writers had
AGENDAS. A personal anecdote----hubby does the Friday nite thing which is something like a 20 minute recitation with some variation for this or that------one time he could not find his prayer book----
I said "sheeeesh ---you know it-----say it and get it over with"
(I am a bit irreverent) He refused-----"my father said 'ALWAYS read-------people who do not read EVENTUALLY
INTRODUCE ERROR"-------like muslims"
When was the last time that you read the story of the three pigs?
What are the odds that you couldn't recite the story exactly as you first heard it read to you as a child?
Even if you embellished the story here and there would it matter in the least or change the moral of the story, if you understood the moral of the story?