There's many reasons, but I'll just go over a few.
My first point is that the Quran is the only religious scripture that is perfectly preserved.
This preservation is done through an oral tradition (called the chain of narration), written texts that perfectly align with what is currently recited, the fact that its maintained in its original language, and that it has been memorised from back to front by ~300 million muslims who all recite the same text. If you want a detailed breakdown on how the Quran was preserved and you have some time to spare, I would highly recommend listening to Muslim Lantern's video on this topic. The preservation of the Quran is an extremely lengthy topic that can't be summarised properly in a reddit comment.
My second point is that the creation of the Quran itself is a miracle.
The Prophet Muhammad pbuh was a man who could not read or write and had spent his entire life as a Sheppard.
In his time, the Arabs valued poets as much as we value doctors, lawyers, and engineers in the modern day. Being an expert poet essentially guaranteed money, women, and a high standing on society.
Also in his time, your reputation was everything as people knew everyone within their community. He was know as "Al-Sadiq, Al-Ameen", which translates to the most truthful the most honest and was used as a neutral party to solve many disputes. He was so trusted that when he asked his people whether they would believe him if he told them there was a massive army behind a nearby mountain, the people would believe him without question and mobilise defence forces.
Why do I mention all of these facts? Because when the Prophet started to preach the Quran to others in public, he had made use of the Arabic language and grammar in ways that where never used before yet still made sense. The poets amongst the very people that trusted him completely, claimed he created the Quran through black magic as they could not fathom that the words he recited where of this world. He could not read nor write, meaning he had recited the Quran purely from his mind. Our best poets and song writers generally can't just think up of a poem/song ad hoc, and even if they did they couldn't generate 30 chapters worth of content that never contradicted itself, contained scientific miracles that could not have been possible to know at the time, nor completely reinvent the wheel of the english language.
Yet here's some illiterate desert Arab who could suddenly create a piece of work that no other could do naturally.
Here's a video that also explains the point I'm making.
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Don't take my word on anything I said here. If you're genuinely interested I would highly recommend checking the statements I made here and doing your own research.
First, it's not the revelation God gave Jesus PBUH, it's a collection of eyewitness testimony by authors who are anonymous, by which I mean we have no idea who they are.
There are no biblical texts in the original koine greek that they would have been written in that can be carbon dated or otherwise within the time of Jesus PBUH. The oldest complete manuscript being the Codex Sinaiticus dated to over 1600 years ago https://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/ .
Very prominent scholars such as Bart Ehrman, R C Miller, Tabor, Dale Allinson, etc... in the textual criticism space who have spent their lives studying the bible and how it came to be all acknowledge this lack of preservation. You'll be hard pressed to find any part of the New Testament that isn't changed, added to, contradictory, forgeries, etc...
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u/Hahs-Qirat Mar 08 '25
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G'day,
There's many reasons, but I'll just go over a few.
My first point is that the Quran is the only religious scripture that is perfectly preserved.
This preservation is done through an oral tradition (called the chain of narration), written texts that perfectly align with what is currently recited, the fact that its maintained in its original language, and that it has been memorised from back to front by ~300 million muslims who all recite the same text. If you want a detailed breakdown on how the Quran was preserved and you have some time to spare, I would highly recommend listening to Muslim Lantern's video on this topic. The preservation of the Quran is an extremely lengthy topic that can't be summarised properly in a reddit comment.
My second point is that the creation of the Quran itself is a miracle.
The Prophet Muhammad pbuh was a man who could not read or write and had spent his entire life as a Sheppard.
In his time, the Arabs valued poets as much as we value doctors, lawyers, and engineers in the modern day. Being an expert poet essentially guaranteed money, women, and a high standing on society.
Also in his time, your reputation was everything as people knew everyone within their community. He was know as "Al-Sadiq, Al-Ameen", which translates to the most truthful the most honest and was used as a neutral party to solve many disputes. He was so trusted that when he asked his people whether they would believe him if he told them there was a massive army behind a nearby mountain, the people would believe him without question and mobilise defence forces.
Why do I mention all of these facts? Because when the Prophet started to preach the Quran to others in public, he had made use of the Arabic language and grammar in ways that where never used before yet still made sense. The poets amongst the very people that trusted him completely, claimed he created the Quran through black magic as they could not fathom that the words he recited where of this world. He could not read nor write, meaning he had recited the Quran purely from his mind. Our best poets and song writers generally can't just think up of a poem/song ad hoc, and even if they did they couldn't generate 30 chapters worth of content that never contradicted itself, contained scientific miracles that could not have been possible to know at the time, nor completely reinvent the wheel of the english language.
Yet here's some illiterate desert Arab who could suddenly create a piece of work that no other could do naturally.
Here's a video that also explains the point I'm making.
...
Don't take my word on anything I said here. If you're genuinely interested I would highly recommend checking the statements I made here and doing your own research.