Have you ever thought about what it would mean
if some Quranic verses are missing and were never
replaced? What would that do to the claim that
the Quran is perfectly preserved and fully protected
by God? Islamic sources themselves mention verses
that are not part of the current Quran and were
never replaced by anything like them or better.
We already looked at the case of the stoning
verse and the suckling verse. Now let us look
at another very serious example. Connected to
Muhammad's final days. According to Sahih al
-Bukhari, Book 7, Volume 70, Hadith 573, Ibn
Abbas reports that when Allah's Apostle was on
his deathbed, there were people in the house
including Umar ibn al -Khattab. The Prophet said,
Come, let me write for you a statement after
which you will not go astray. Umar answered that
the Prophet was seriously ill and that they already
had the Quran and that the Book of Allah was
enough. The people in the room disagreed. Some
insisted that they should come close and let
the Prophet write something so they would never
go astray. Others repeated what Umar said, that
the Quran was enough. The disagreement became
loud and chaotic. Then the Prophet told them
all to go away. Ibn Abbas later used to say that
it was a great misfortune that Allah's Apostle
was prevented from writing that statement for
them because of their quarreling and noise. Think
about what this means. Muhammad said he wanted
to give them a written statement that would keep
them from ever going astray. Yet, because of
confusion and argument in the room, that guidance
was never written down. It was lost and never
included in the Quran and never replaced. If
that final guidance was so important, how could
it be allowed to vanish? Now connect this with
what we have already seen about abrogation. There
are several categories of abrogation described
by Muslim scholars. Some verses are said to be
abrogated even though they still appear in the
Qur 'an. Other verses are said to have been revealed
and then removed from the text and never replaced.
Examples include the verse commanding stoning
for adultery and the verse about ten sucklings
creating a foster relationship, both mentioned
in reports from Sahih Muslim and Sunan ibn Majah.
In those cases, the content is remembered in
the hadith, but the verses themselves are gone
from the Quran. Surah 2, verse 106, claims that
when Allah abrogates or causes any revelation
to be forgotten, He will bring another verse
like it or better in its place. But in these
examples, we have content that was revealed,
then lost, and never replaced by anything written
in the Quran. The stoning and suckling verses
are gone. The final written guidance that Muhammad
wanted to give on his deathbed never appears.
These are clear cases where verses or crucial
guidance have been lost without a replacement.
So here is the core problem. If Surah 2, verse
106 promises that abrogated or forgotten verses
will be replaced by something similar or better
yet, history shows verses and revelations that
were lost and not replaced, then that Quranic
claim does not match the historical record. If
that statement in the Quran is shown to be false,
then why should we blindly trust the other statements
the Quran makes about itself and about its own
preservation? These questions are not meant to
mock, but to invite honest reflection. If the
book claims perfect protection and faithful replacement
of abrogated verses, yet its own sources admit
missing and unreplaced verses, then any serious
seeker has to ask, whether the Quran can truly
be regarded as an error -free and perfectly preserved
revelation.