Preservation of the Quran Against Distortion
The Noble Quran is unlike the other divinely revealed Books for Allaah The Almighty has undertaken to preserve it against distortion and change. Allaah The Almighty Says (what means): {Indeed, it is We who sent down the Quran and indeed, We will be its guardian.} [Quran 15: 9]
Scholars said that Allaah The Almighty has protected it from the least additions or deletion of words. Had not Allaah The Almighty promised to preserve it with Himself, it would have met the same fate of the other divinly revealed books in the way they were distorted and altered. That is because Allaah The Almighty entrusted the preservation of these Books to those to whom such books were revealed. Allaah The Almighty Says (what means): {Indeed, We sent down the Torah, in which was guidance and light. The prophets who submitted [to Allaah] judged by it for the Jews, as did the rabbis and scholars by that with which they were entrusted of the Scripture of Allaah, and they were witnesses thereto.} [Quran 5: 44]
The wisdom behind preferring the Quran to the other divinely revealed Books with this great privilege is that it is the last of them.
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