Ep.1: New Series - In search of THE QUR'AN'S ORIGINS!

We have covered the Qur'an in past episodes before. But due to new and exciting ongoing research, especially coming out of Germany, we have had to re-assess where the holy book of Islam actually came from, how it was written, by whom, and in what language. According to the Standard Islamic Narrative, the Qur'an has always existed in heaven. Surah 85:21-22 supports this view. The SIN then states that the Qur'an was first written down by both Abu Bakr in 632 AD (see Al Bukhari, vol. 6:509), and later by Uthman in 652 AD (see Al Bukhari, vol. 6:510), and this time in the 'Quraishi' Arabic dialect. So, it is clear from the SIN perspective the earliest 7th century Qur'an was in Arabic, and only in Arabic. Yet, that isn't what the latest research on the Qur'an is now telling us. Join Jay Smith and Al Fadi as they start out on a new series tracing the antecedents to the Qur'an we have today, to find what exactly was the proto-Qur'anic Archetype from which our present Qur'an is derived, and exactly who was the earliest Qur'anic material all about. You'll be surprised when you hear the answer. © Pfander Centre for Apologetics - US, 2022 (66,240) Music: "Feeling the Caribbean Sun" by Horst Hoffman, from filmmusic-io