To a believer it is a basic fact that the original Arabic text of Quran has not been changed since it has been written about 14 centuries ago. This is itself an undeniable miracle of Quran if we are willing to open our heart to it. Miracles are to increase our belief in God which is the ultimate unseen truth of the world. In that sense, Quran itself corroborates this miracle in 15:9:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
انا نحن نزلنا الذكر وانا له لحافظون
"Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian."
As it is clear by now, the propose of this post is not to prove that Quran has remained unchanged over time. Instead, I would like to draw your attention to why it is so. Why possibly God has intended to protect this text unlike the previous ones. Needless to say, it is only God who knows the real purpose but as it is the case through the Quran we can get a idea by looking at the facts with making a judgement through our hear applying the highest degree of honesty we can find inside our self.
Basically if we try to take this approach in understanding Quran, in that we are not trying to prove anything to anyone, and only for the benefit of our own, we would naturally try to be our most honest with ourselves. I truly believe that if all the facts are presented to our heart and all the potential biases such as fame, money or power are removed, our heart is absolutely capable of forming the right judgement especially in terms of good or bad, right or wrong, true or false, love or hate and all the metaphysical matters which are beyond the reach of our rational mind.
That said, I would wonder how we can make sense about this property of Quran. One of the reasonable hypothesis I heard is since Quran outlines the fundamental metaphysical laws of the world which have been and will be true forever, it does not need any change as the most fundamental principals of the world will not change.
I believe what makes more sense however, is the fact that Quran appears to be an on going conversation between God and human. That is to say, every one can potentially find himself the one who is addressed in Quran directly. Basically, it appears that hesitations, questions and thinking process of Abraham, Noha, Moses or all the others are the same for all us if we would be willing to seriously make sense of our lives.
Yet it is not only Quran's life changing stories of the past that are amazing, but also its incredible level of customization in addressing our personalized unique situation makes Quran a live conversation. It may not be easy to prove that Quran is , in fact, alive and ongoing publicly since we are talking about individual circumstances that may not be a concern for others but in our personal lives they are extremely important and real.
So I would invite everyone reading this to check this for yourself. I invite you to engage a conversation with God directly by asking something that you have been struggling with for a long time, something that you have been thinking that will reveal more of God to you, something that if clarified would change your life, something you long for and wait for the answer to come to you either in context of a specific verse of Quran or indirectly through a clarification or inspiration that you will feel it in your heart which will settle your worries and gets you out of that situation. The only requirements are being serious about it and being absolutely honest with yourself.
It would be great to hear your experiences by replying to this post.
Last but not least, while recognizing Quran as a live personalized conversation will help us in our lives, it does not answer the question of why God did not protect the previous scriptures. What made 1400 years ago different from the prior history of mankind. This is a question that I have had in mind for sometime and I hope God will let me to the answer if he wishes so.
So I would invite everyone reading this to check this for yourself. I invite you to engage a conversation with God directly by asking something that you have been struggling with for a long time, something that you have been thinking that will reveal more of God to you, something that if clarified would change your life, something you long for and wait for the answer to come to you either in context of a specific verse of Quran or indirectly through a clarification or inspiration that you will feel it in your heart which will settle your worries and gets you out of that situation. The only requirements are being serious about it and being absolutely honest with yourself.
It would be great to hear your experiences by replying to this post.
Last but not least, while recognizing Quran as a live personalized conversation will help us in our lives, it does not answer the question of why God did not protect the previous scriptures. What made 1400 years ago different from the prior history of mankind. This is a question that I have had in mind for sometime and I hope God will let me to the answer if he wishes so.
