WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.020 Have you ever thought about what it would mean 00:00:02.020 --> 00:00:05.099 if some Quranic verses are missing and were never 00:00:05.099 --> 00:00:08.019 replaced? What would that do to the claim that 00:00:08.019 --> 00:00:10.660 the Quran is perfectly preserved and fully protected 00:00:10.660 --> 00:00:14.240 by God? Islamic sources themselves mention verses 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:17.440 that are not part of the current Quran and were 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:20.760 never replaced by anything like them or better. 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:23.460 We already looked at the case of the stoning 00:00:23.460 --> 00:00:26.199 verse and the suckling verse. Now let us look 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:29.120 at another very serious example. Connected to 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:32.420 Muhammad's final days. According to Sahih al 00:00:32.420 --> 00:00:38.060 -Bukhari, Book 7, Volume 70, Hadith 573, Ibn 00:00:38.060 --> 00:00:41.140 Abbas reports that when Allah's Apostle was on 00:00:41.140 --> 00:00:43.520 his deathbed, there were people in the house 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:46.979 including Umar ibn al -Khattab. The Prophet said, 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:50.079 Come, let me write for you a statement after 00:00:50.079 --> 00:00:53.420 which you will not go astray. Umar answered that 00:00:53.420 --> 00:00:56.500 the Prophet was seriously ill and that they already 00:00:56.500 --> 00:00:59.560 had the Quran and that the Book of Allah was 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:02.820 enough. The people in the room disagreed. Some 00:01:02.820 --> 00:01:05.379 insisted that they should come close and let 00:01:05.379 --> 00:01:07.799 the Prophet write something so they would never 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:11.239 go astray. Others repeated what Umar said, that 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:14.280 the Quran was enough. The disagreement became 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:16.959 loud and chaotic. Then the Prophet told them 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:20.359 all to go away. Ibn Abbas later used to say that 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:23.439 it was a great misfortune that Allah's Apostle 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:25.659 was prevented from writing that statement for 00:01:25.659 --> 00:01:29.319 them because of their quarreling and noise. Think 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:32.040 about what this means. Muhammad said he wanted 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:34.459 to give them a written statement that would keep 00:01:34.459 --> 00:01:37.799 them from ever going astray. Yet, because of 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:40.680 confusion and argument in the room, that guidance 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:43.859 was never written down. It was lost and never 00:01:43.859 --> 00:01:47.480 included in the Quran and never replaced. If 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:50.079 that final guidance was so important, how could 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:53.099 it be allowed to vanish? Now connect this with 00:01:53.099 --> 00:01:56.250 what we have already seen about abrogation. There 00:01:56.250 --> 00:01:58.769 are several categories of abrogation described 00:01:58.769 --> 00:02:02.069 by Muslim scholars. Some verses are said to be 00:02:02.069 --> 00:02:04.250 abrogated even though they still appear in the 00:02:04.250 --> 00:02:07.150 Qur 'an. Other verses are said to have been revealed 00:02:07.150 --> 00:02:09.509 and then removed from the text and never replaced. 00:02:09.969 --> 00:02:12.969 Examples include the verse commanding stoning 00:02:12.969 --> 00:02:16.270 for adultery and the verse about ten sucklings 00:02:16.270 --> 00:02:19.530 creating a foster relationship, both mentioned 00:02:19.530 --> 00:02:23.210 in reports from Sahih Muslim and Sunan ibn Majah. 00:02:23.610 --> 00:02:26.069 In those cases, the content is remembered in 00:02:26.069 --> 00:02:28.729 the hadith, but the verses themselves are gone 00:02:28.729 --> 00:02:33.569 from the Quran. Surah 2, verse 106, claims that 00:02:33.569 --> 00:02:36.270 when Allah abrogates or causes any revelation 00:02:36.270 --> 00:02:39.069 to be forgotten, He will bring another verse 00:02:39.069 --> 00:02:42.330 like it or better in its place. But in these 00:02:42.330 --> 00:02:44.669 examples, we have content that was revealed, 00:02:44.870 --> 00:02:48.169 then lost, and never replaced by anything written 00:02:48.169 --> 00:02:50.810 in the Quran. The stoning and suckling verses 00:02:50.810 --> 00:02:53.699 are gone. The final written guidance that Muhammad 00:02:53.699 --> 00:02:56.520 wanted to give on his deathbed never appears. 00:02:56.860 --> 00:02:59.740 These are clear cases where verses or crucial 00:02:59.740 --> 00:03:02.479 guidance have been lost without a replacement. 00:03:02.819 --> 00:03:06.419 So here is the core problem. If Surah 2, verse 00:03:06.419 --> 00:03:10.180 106 promises that abrogated or forgotten verses 00:03:10.180 --> 00:03:13.199 will be replaced by something similar or better 00:03:13.199 --> 00:03:16.520 yet, history shows verses and revelations that 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:19.960 were lost and not replaced, then that Quranic 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:23.520 claim does not match the historical record. If 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:25.819 that statement in the Quran is shown to be false, 00:03:26.020 --> 00:03:28.860 then why should we blindly trust the other statements 00:03:28.860 --> 00:03:31.520 the Quran makes about itself and about its own 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:34.520 preservation? These questions are not meant to 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:38.039 mock, but to invite honest reflection. If the 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:41.219 book claims perfect protection and faithful replacement 00:03:41.219 --> 00:03:44.599 of abrogated verses, yet its own sources admit 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:47.960 missing and unreplaced verses, then any serious 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:51.340 seeker has to ask, whether the Quran can truly 00:03:51.340 --> 00:03:54.919 be regarded as an error -free and perfectly preserved 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:55.500 revelation.