responsible until the Day of Judgment.
Today all Muslims, wherever they are, read the very same Qur'an;
Not a single discrepancy can be found in one word or letter. The Qur'an
revealed to the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and
compiled by the Caliph Abu Bakr and then later written out by the Caliph
Uthman, may Allah be pleased with them, who lived 1,400 years ago, and
the Qur'an we read today are identical. There is a one-to-one
correspondence between them. This means, from the day the Qur'an was
revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, it has survived
intact. That is because Allah protected the Qur'an from evil people who
intended to alter it or incorporate extra bits in it. In one verse, Allah
informs us that He preserves the Qur'an specially:
It is We Who have sent down the Reminder [i.e., the Qur'an]
and We Who will preserve it. (Surat Al-Hijr: 9)
With the word "We" in this verse, Allah refers to Himself. There is
no other god besides Allah, He has no partner. He is the Almighty Allah,
the Originator of everything and the One Who encompasses everything in
His knowledge.
In some parts of the Qur'an, Allah refers to Himself with the word
"I," and in some others with the word, "We." In Arabic, which is the
language of the Qur'an, the word "We" is also employed to refer to a
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