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Stop me if you've heard this one before. There is only one Quran, one book that has been revealed by Allah that all the Muslims around the world memorize word for word, letter for letter. Well, we're going to see if that's true. It's God.
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You've heard it said by all the dies, all the popular dwagandas that there's only one Quran memorized, untouched, uncorrupted, never to be changed, never has been changed. You all heard this before. The Quran has been preserved. We believe since the time of the prophet till now, word for word, letter for letter, haraka or vow sign for vow sign. There has never been two copies of the Quran that are different even in one letter or one word. So we believe in that one Quran memorized letter by letter, word by word.
Well, today I brought up I brought some friends along with me and we're going to give you guys five variants. Five Quran variants that every Christian should know. You guys should have this all in your pockets, in your back pockets whenever you're talking to a Muslim. Five Quran variants. Easy to explain, easy to show to your Muslim friends. And I brought my friends to talk about this giant DLC.
What's up, guys?
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What's up, man?
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What up, DLC?
You in there?
I'm in there.
How are you?
Pretty good.
All right, guys. So, we got five Quran variants, easy ones, right? Uh, now we're not talking about English, you know, translations that are different, right? We're talking about the Arabic in the Arabic, different versions of the Quran, different variant readings that aren't just dialect changes, but are, you know, different words that change the meaning. Is that that's what we're talking about, right, guys?
That's exactly right. That's exactly what we're talking about.
We're talking about differences in the Arabic text, different versions of the Arabic text.
Perfect.
All right. So, with that being said, one of these that come to my mind, if you guys have been watching the channel for a long time, you guys are familiar with this one, but uh we have uh that comes to my mind is chapter 37:12. Now, I got my Arabic speakers here so they could break this down. Now, DLC, do you mind reading this if you could see this? Can you read this for me in the Huffs version?
Yep. The HS version says so the word that is in question is which means you are amazed or surprised. You are amazed.
Now who's the speaker Jai in this context in chapter 37:12? Who's the one speaking?
This is Allah speaking to Muhammad. So Allah speaking to Muhammad and he says you were surprised while they mocked or you were amazed while they mocked. Allah speaking to Muhammad.
But when we scroll down here and we see all these different, you know, readings of the Quran here, they're mostly the same. But we get down to Alasai and Al Hamza. We get here, what does it say here, DLC?
It says, now tell us what the difference is. What's happening here is Allah speaking again, but he changes the pronoun. He says, that's the word difference. If you remember in the habs was now what's the difference here it says I was amazed. Wow. So Allah is amazed. Now before it was Muhammad who was amazed.
So here's the big difference where we got Allah who is the speaker. He's the speaker in both ver in both versions of the Quran. He's the speaker. And yet we have Allah saying in one version he says you were surprised while they mocked. while in the other one here he says I was surprised while they mobbed. So the Muslims can't say oh well you know this dialects and you know they all carry the same meaning. No the meaning literally like it changes the entire context. Was it Muhammad who was surprised or was it Allah who was surprised? Now if you want to say both and then you know by all means Allah say both. Both Allah and Muhammad were surprised, but you can't say that this isn't a difference and that doesn't change the meaning.
All right, guys. So, that was chapter 37:12. Have that in your bag. Easy variant to show a Muslim. And we got another one. So, that's number one. Number two, we got Surah 10 verse 16. Now, J, go ahead and talk to us about this. What's this one about?
Okay, here is one that is a contradiction. A lot of times, Muslims will ask you, "Okay, show me where they contradict." All right, here's where they contradict. Chapter 10 verse 16 says, "Say, if Allah ws, I would not have recited it to you, nor would he have made it known to you." Nor would he have made it known to you.
Now, if we look into the Arabic here, okay, so that's the that's where we want you to look. He would not have made it known to you. That's where the elongated sound it means no not known to you. He would not have made it known to you. That's what most Muslims know about. And then we go to one of readers and he says no elongated a anything. It's very short which means he would have made it known to you. Oh wow. Those are two contradictions. One says he would not have made it known to you. The other one says he would have made it known to you. There's there's no way out of this one. This was this a clear contradiction. That's clearcut.
But don't take our word for it. They talk about it in the Muslim sources like in here which is available online to everyone. It does admit this variant reading as you see here in the highlighted versions. One says nor would he have made it known and the other says he would have made it known. Wow. Yeah. There's no way out of this. So even their scholars are seeing and admitting that this is a contradiction. So you can go on altapsere.com pull up Jalain's taps and you can see it for yourself and show the Muslims that even their scholars are acknowledging that this 010 verse 16 has a variant reading that contradicts.
So now if they're asking for variance with contradictions, we have those. If they're asking for variants that show a change in meaning, we have those. So these are two. We got Sarah 37:12. We got chapter 10 verse 16. Here's a third variant that you should have in your pocket as a Christian. You should be able to show this to a Muslim. Go ahead, J. Talk to us. Walk us through this.
This one is a legal variant. What do I mean by that? I mean that depending on which version of the Quran you're reading changes and affects how you practice the religion of Islam. So the verse here is about how you redeem a missed fast. So when Muslims miss fasts in Ramadan, they have to make them up. In surah 2 verse84 it says means the redemption means the feeding of is the word here that you need which we transliterated here one poor person singular ms one poor person that's hs so for every missed fast you have to feed one poor person however in the other version famous version actually called it says fyaton is the word here. So here the redemption is by feeding plural people and in the Arabic here the plural is more than two three or more. Okay. So if you're living in a part of the world that reads the hquran if you miss a fast you have to feed one person per missed fast. If you are in a part of the world that reads the Quran, for every missed fast, you have to feed three or more poor people.
So, what you going to do? That's tough. I uh Allah, I probably have to say on that one, Allah knows best. That That's tough. So, for every fast day that I miss, depending on the Quran that I'm reading, depending on the Quran that I take authoritative, it determines how I make up that fast day. Now, the reason why this is so bad is because if I do this wrong, then I'm not purified before Allah. Is that right?
Correct. These fasts are obligation. They're not voluntary, which means that's why they don't go away if you miss them. Even if you're ill, you can't fast that day. You have to make it up. So, the rules of Allah, what did Allah have in his mind? Was he particularly generous that day and said, "Just feed one person per mist fast." or was he really strict about it and said actually it needs to be three or more per fast. Wow. It couldn't have been both. Which one was in the mind of Allah when he revealed that verse? Wow.
And I see that you got Alabari there. What's what's Alab talking about?
So Alab here acknowledges that there's the singular reading and then he also acknowledges that there are others who read it in the plural poor people. So ms a poor person poor people. So that's acknowledged by Muslim commentators as well and by Muslim jurists. Wow. So not only do we have variants that change the meaning, variants that contradict, but we also have variants that change the ruling how you are to practice Islam and even purify yourselves, make yourself right, reconcile yourself back with Allah. If you miss a fast day, do you just feed a poor person and you're good to go? or do you have to feed multiple poor people and then you're good to go?
So, that's three down. We got two more to go. We have a fourth Quran variant that you guys should know. We're giving you guys a list of five variants that every Christian should know. Here's number four. Now, what we got here, 90. What we talking about here?
Chapter 12:9. And what we have here is from the Bridges translation, Fullman's translation of the Quran, where he actually notes in English some of the variant readings. So chapter 12 verse 90 the brothers of Joseph think that they see him in one version and they know that they see him in another version. So in one version of the Quran it says they said can it be that you are really Joseph? Can it be that you're really Joseph? They don't know but if you see on the bottom here in the footnote he notes that there is Iba and Jaffer who read it as they said you really are Joseph. He even put an exclamation mark like there an emphasis there. Yeah. So, one reading they're not sure. Could it be that you're Joseph? Are you really Joseph? Is that you? We don't know. And then the other reading they're certain that that is really Joseph. Wow.
So, we got uncertainty in one reading of the Quran. We got certainty in in the other. And these both can't be cuz these are the same this is the same conversation, same instant, right? The same uh scenario. This isn't both have, you know, two different scenarios. This is the same exact conversation being had and it's being rendered differently in the different Qurans. Is that right?
Exactly. And it's not some brothers said this and some brothers said that. No, it just says they said. So if you're reading one version, you're going to get the indication that they plural that they said. Can it be you? Is that really you? They don't know. Then the other version makes you think that no, they know for sure that it's him. Right? So it's not broken into different groups or anything like that. Those excuses don't work. That's good.
We've got the who speaks about this and in the Arabic the Quran has it in the question mark where they say which means are you and he says in the in the different in the other versions it it's confirmation it's it's affirmative you are Ysef and actually prefers the question mark one so wait a second you have alabar picking one reading of the Quran over the other one. Yes. Right here it says he says which means the correct reading. He says according to us which means the reading of one who questions the one with a question. Hold on a second. Let's just get this straight. You mean to tell me daughter of Christ, woman of God, that we have an Islamic scholar, historian, right, one of their best, one of their biggest is saying that one of the readings of the eternal Quran, the eternal speech of Allah is incorrect. He's saying the correct one is this, which means the other is incorrect.
Exactly. Because if it's both Allah, number one, it can't be because what did did Allah say? Okay, take two redo scene with different line. Can't do that. What happened historically is one thing and if it was both he if he felt if he felt that he respected both he wouldn't say one is correct. That means the other is incorrect. So the same theory the same narrative that we usually get from these Muslims that all of these Qurans even though these are different dialects and even though there can be varants they're all equally the same. They're all equally correct and from Allah. This narrative is squashed. It's a myth. Exactly. The early Muslims like did not believe that. And nowhere did the said that this is dialect. He said one is a question and the other one is uh affirmation. Amen. Wow. That's awesome.
Now with this variant guys, it's a good response to when Muslims say that uh you know the the the the variant readings just have to do with dialect and just how you know certain Muslims and certain people around the world uh pronounce certain words and enunciate certain words and you know they have a different way of speaking but it's the same word it's the same script right it has the same skeleton and everything like that now but this with this variant this doesn't work if words are actually missing Right. Giant DLC. Exactly. How does that work? One Quran has a word the other Quran doesn't have or the other Quran has a word the other one doesn't have. I thought they were all the same. They're supposed to all be the same, man. Just just sound different. That's what they say. It tells me a scribe was sleepy. Sleepy scribe.
So this is it. Chapter 57:4. It says those who are stingy and enjoin upon people stinginess. And whoever turns away then indeed Allah is the free of need the praiseworthy. So the bit that we want to focus on is the Allah free of need and praiseworthy which in the Arabic it says and the part is the problem because we see it in some versions of the Quran like huffs but it seems to disappear in other versions of the Quran like so means he is. So in this version there's no he is which messes up the grammar. There's no is. So what we going to do about this one? So what happened here?
Now this is interesting. Just really quick guys. So you can't pronounce a word that is not there. Right. Right. You can't have a you can't have a specific dialect on a word that doesn't exist in the text. Exactly. Wow. This is a this is beautiful. Yeah. So it's not just an accent or it's not just a dialect. No, this is a completely missing word. Or if you take as the standard version of the Quran, you could say that Huffs and other versions added word. Depends on which Quran is your Quran, man. Right. Oh, that's good.
So we we'll just read we'll read them so you guys can hear the difference. But the key thing that you're want to be listening for is the word who one of them has the word who he is and the other one doesn't have it at all. Okay? So the one which has it says and the one that doesn't have it says no. So basically it's like you know those find the difference puzzles. It's the same the same. Oh difference. Where's the difference? Yeah, you can see it with the eye even. Wow. Yeah, you can literally see it with your own eyes that a a word is gone from the text or a word is added to the text. You can clearly see it.
So, so there you guys have it. Five Quran variants that every Christian should have in their back pocket. We got chapter 37:12. We got chapter 10:16, chapter 2 verse 184, chapter 12:90 and chapter 57 verse 24. Depending on which Quran is your authoritative Quran, depending on which Quran you got is going to be how you're going to see these verses and how you're going to deal with these verses. And this is huge. This is huge because this demonstrates again once and for all that the standard narrative that the Quran is perfectly preserved right down to the letter. No difference in changes in the meaning, no difference in context. All of the words are preserved. This standard narrative got them hoes, man.
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Logic.
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