Speaker's Corner with ISH, proving 100,000 Qur'anic Variants destroys its Preservation!

Five years ago, on June 8th, 2020, the Islamic world took a historical blow, as the notion that their Qur'an was completely preserved was dis-proven by a simple 28-minute interview between two Muslims, Dr Yasir Qadhi and Mohammed Hijab. But that interview was predicated on an earlier event which took place at Speaker's Corner on June 2016, when Hatun Tash and Dr Jay Smith introduced for the first time in public 26 different Arabic Qur'ans. No one had ever shown the world these many different Arabic Qur'ans before. That event was filmed and uploaded onto Pfanderfilms, and from there it took a "life of its own", which has not subsided, even today. To celebrate that event, Dr. Jay Smith @pfanderfilms and Ish — a bold young convert from Islam — went down to the same spot at Speaker's Corner on Sunday, June 8, 2025, exactly 9 years later, in order to revisit the watershed moment Muhammad Hijab had been a witness to them holding up the Qur'ans for the world to see, and had immediately left the crowd and yelled for all the Muslims to stop watching us as he would explain what we were showing. Obviously, he didn't know what to say at the time, as it was new information for him as well. So, four years later, on June 8th, 2020 he instigated a public conversation with the world's leading authority on the Qira'at issue, Dr. Yasir Qadhi into stating what Muslims were never supposed to say: "The standard [Islamic] narrative has holes in it." By the end of the conversation, Dr Qadhi was forced to admit that the Qur'an which we have today is an amalgamation of all of the 30 official Qur'ans, taking a little from each in order to have the whole. What he didn't know was that that there are over 100,000 differences between the 30 Qur'ans. In that 28-minute interview Dr Qadhi, the world's leading authority on the 'readings of the Qur'an', threw the Qur'an "under the bus", so that no Muslim can any longer claim that the Qur'an is "Eternal, or Sent down, or Complete, or Unchanged". It is riddled with changes, and as man-made a book as any other. 🔎 This video commemorates that earth-shattering interview, linking it to earlier encounters in 2016 at the same spot in Speaker’s Corner. Five years later, the implications are undeniable: The Quran has not been perfectly preserved. 📚 Dr. Jay and Ish meticulously compared different Arabic Qur'ans, including Hafs, Warsh, Qalun, Al-Duri, as well as other Qira’at and Ahruf derivations, exposing a few of the over 100,000 differences which have been discovered between the 30 official Qur'ans which are memorized by almost 2 billion Muslims around the world. These differences include differing words, which means different meanings, doctrines, practices, and even differing theology. Ish and Jay dismantled the myth of an "eternal, unchanged, and preserved" Quran by highlighting variant verses in just 4 verses: Surah 3:146 ("killed" vs "fought") Surah 21:11 ("he said" vs "say") Surah 3:48 ("He will teach" vs "We will teach") Surah 43:18 ("with the Most Gracious" vs "slaves of the Most Gracious") This is a crushing rebuttal to the Islamic claim that "not one letter" of the Quran has changed. Muslims must now confront the deep theological crisis admitted by their own scholars. 🔖 REFERENCES (Quranic Verses Quoted) Qur’an 85:22 – "Nay! This is a Glorious Qur’an, (Inscribed) in a Tablet Preserved!" Qur’an 15:9 – "Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur’an and indeed, We will be its guardian." Qur’an 10:15 & 18:27 – “No one can change the words of Allah.” Variant Readings Referenced: Surah 3:146 – Warsh: “Many prophets were killed”; Hafs: “Many prophets fought.” Surah 21:11 – Hafs: “He said”; Hamza (via Khalaf): “Say” Surah 3:48 – “He will teach” vs. “We will teach” Surah 43:18 – “They are with the Most Gracious” vs. “They are slaves of the Most Gracious” Sequence of Subjects: 0:00 - Former Muslim Turned Christian 0:33 - June 8th: The Day Everything Changed 1:00 - The 2016 Encounter: 26 Qurans at Speaker’s Corner 2:00 - Arabic Qurans: No Two Alike 3:10 - 100,000 Variants Across 30 Qurans 4:00 - Hafs vs Warsh vs Others – Deadly Differences 6:30 - Theological Contradictions: Fight vs Kill 9:00 - Cairo 1924 & the Standardization Crisis 11:00 - God Said or Man Said? Grammar That Shakes Islam 13:00 - Slave or Companion? Surah 43:18 15:00 - No Uthmanic Manuscripts Survive 17:00 - Yasir Qadhi’s Crisis at Yale 24:00 - Hijab’s Pressing Question: Which Quran is Eternal? 26:00 - The Aftermath: Hundreds Left Islam 28:00 - Why the Bible Stands – Jesus is the Word of God © Pfander Centre for Apologetics & Polemics - US, 2025 (119,260)