25 Confusing Qur'an Claims Categorically Confronted!

Jay goes through 25 claims Muslims make about the Qira’at and confronts them all, debunking them in this 48-minute video. 1) He begins by confronting the notion that the 10 Qira’at were somehow all early, yet they aren’t, written and created between 736 AD – 1429 AD, which is 100 to 800 years after Muhammad died! 2) The belief that ibn Mujahid (936) approved all the Qira’at is false, as he only approved 7 3) What’s more, Hafs, which is the final Qira’at today is not part of the 7 4) 95% of the Muslim world use Hafs reading, while 3% use Warsh (in North Africa), 1% follow Ibn Aamir (Yemen), .07% follow Qaloon (Libya, Tunisia & Qatar), and .03% read Al Dooree (Sudan & W. Africa) 5) I’jam (dots) and Harakat (vowels) did not exist in the Arabic script in the 7th century, but were introduced in the 8th century 6) Vowels aren’t the only variants found in the Qira’at, as variants also included I’jam (dots). Examples are found in Surahs 2:58, 2:140, 2:219, and 2:271 7) Uthman didn’t omit dots and vowels in 652 AD to accommodate differing readings, since they didn’t exist that early 8) No Muslim seems to know what the ‘al-sab’at ahruf’ really means, with al Suyuti introducing 35 different interpretations 9) Many Muslims confuse the ‘al-sab’at ahruf’ (supposedly revealed to Muhammad) with the ‘Qira’at al-Sab’ (chosen by ibn Mujahid in 936) 10) The first person to even refer to them was the Muwatta of Malik, in 796 AD, which is 60 years after the first Qira’at was written (Ibn Aamir in 736), and 163 years after Muhammad! 11) Muslims don’t understand ‘al-sab’at ahruf’ because they don’t even know what the word ‘Harf’ really means, with around 20 different definitions referenced in their dictionary 12) Is it modes of recitations, or manners of pronunciation, or dialects, or just words, or even letters…no one can say 13) The Qira’at are at times confused with the Ahruf, and Muslims believe Uthman introduced them, yet where is the source for this? 14) Should we suggest that the Ahruf come from Muhammad, with no examples that early, whereas the Qira’at were first introduced by ibn Mujahid, over 300 years later? 15) It’s clear Muslims forget to note that the 10 ‘Best of the Best’ were only chosen by al-Jazari in 1429, which is 800 years too late! 16) ‘Shawadhdh’, or irregular readings were thrown out because they didn’t agree with the earliest Rasm text, but this makes no sense, since we are only talking about dots and vowels, not consonants 17) One cannot compare with any 7th century Rasm Consonantal text, since none exists today, nor has ever existed 18) Consensus is demanded to choose the canonical Qira’at, so where was that consensus when the Hafs was chosen in 1924? 19) If the Hafs Qira’at is now considered the canonical text, why is it not one of the original 7, or even one of the 10? 20) Hafs was considered “unreliable, weak, untrustworthy, containing objectionable materials, with fabricated chains (isnad), a liar, and was thus avoided…so why was his chosen? 21) Hafs comes from Kufa, the city considered by Uthman as corrupted, whose manuscripts he burned in 652 AD 22) Didn’t the Hafs go through minor adjustments between 1924 and 1936, proving that it was manipulated by men? 23) Which of the 30 official Qira'at Qur'ans is the one in heaven, or the one revealed to Muhammad by Jibril, or the one which was written down by Uthman in 652 AD? 24) With all that has been exposed in 2020, so Muslims still believe that the Qur'an we have today is the same "word for word, letter for letter" as that which was revealed to Muhammad in 632, or remains in heaven eternally? 25) Finally, where is this ubiquitous Uthmanic Qur'an Muslims keep talking about, and when can they show us the first complete Qur'anic manuscript (i.e. all 114 Surahs) which is exactly "word for word, letter for letter" like the Hafs Qur'an we have today? © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, 2020 (43,670) “inspiring”, by Rafael Krux (from-filmmusic-io - License CC BY)