The correct mushaf

Khalifa justified this change on pages 480-1 of the appendix to his mistranslation of the Qur’aan, Quran: The Final Scripture, as follows:

“It should be noted that all counts are based on the original Quranic Arabic, as found in Quranic printing strictly adhering to the original. The reader, by now appreciates the fact that the slightest alteration in one word, indeed one letter, utterly destroys this miraculous system. For example, point number 9 of the simple facts listed above states that the first Quranic revelation (19 words) consisted of 76 letters (19 x 4). This first revelation contains two words of الإِنسن, which means “the human being.” Some printings of the Qur’an use the conventional Arabic الإِنسان, rather than the Quranic Arabic الإِنسن. The reader who consults a printing that does not conform to the original Quranic Arabic will find that the first revelation consists of 78 letters, which is wrong.

Another example is noteworthy. The letter “Noon” (N) of sura 68, verse 1, is spelled out into three alphabet letters نون. The printings of Qur’an have dropped this spelling and usually write down the single letter “N”. Thus, if the reader consults a Quranic printing that does not spell out the letter “N” into “Noon”, (he) will have a deficiency of 1 in the total frequency on “Noon” in surah 68. It should be noted that this is the only letter that is spelled out in the original.”

This method of argumentation is a classical example of the deceptive method used by heretics in which truth is mixed with falsehood. The first part of the statement is correct; the word Insaan الإِنسانis written as الإِنسن, without the Alif, in the oldest manuscripts of the Qur’aan and also in Qur’aans printed in the Arab world, while Qur’aans printed in India and Pakistan include this particular Alif based on their oldest manuscripts. This can easily be verified where prints of the Qur’aan from both regions are available. However, the second point is an outright lie whose veracity cannot be checked by most people, but, since the first point is verifiably true, people would tend to accept the second as also being true. Ancient manuscripts do not support this false claim in the least nor are there any reputable Qur’aanic printings that agree with him. In fact the 15^th century C.E. Egyptian Qur’aanic scholar, Muhammad az-Zarkashee stated the following concerning the prefixed letters, “Fourthly, they are all written in the Qur’aan in the form of letters and not in the form of their names. ” [74] Such an aberration can only be found in Dr. Rashad’s clumsily doctored photocopy of the Qur’aan’s text. He was also careful to point out that this “peculiarity” is limited to Soorah al-Qalam because its uniform application throughout the Qur’aan would upset most of his other concocted multiples.

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