Qira'at Conundrum Critique: From a 'Live' talk

Jay spoke at a camp near the mountains for people who wanted him to give a synopsis of the recent controversy surrounding the 'preservation of the Qur'an'. Most of those who were there were not very aware of the controversy, and were not well versed in things 'Qur'anic', so Jay tried to make this talk as simple as he could, as he walked them through the different steps which have transpired in the last two months, comparing the problems we find with the Qur'an's preservation with that of the Bible. Because it is so simplified, we thought it would be appropriate to upload it on this channel for the many others who are not as well versed in things Islamic, so that they can follow what has so far transpired on the internet on this very important issue. In his talk he noted that while we have applied a textual historical test to the Bible, this has not yet been done with the Qur'an. At no time during the initial years of the Qur'an's creation was a textual assessment applied to it to ascertain an original text, or even to compare the subsequent 30 Qira'at Qur'ans to any early manuscripts to see if they paralleled them, or were even similar. They were primarily chosen 300 - 800 years after the fact, and were only picked due to regional influences. The fact that there were so many Qira'at variants between the 8th - 10th century (possibly as many as 700 examples) proves that the early Muslims were more interested in popularity, politics, and geography than they were in deriving any sort of exemplar of the earliest consonantal text. Unlike the Bible which has gone through an extensive textual critical analysis, the Qur'an has not, and looks like it never will, so that we'll never know if the Qur'an Muslims are using today (the Hafs text) is anything like the first one compiled in its initial stage sometime between the 7th and the 10th centuries. © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, 2020 (36,400) Music: "inspiring"-by-rafael-krux-from-filmmusic-io@