Firstly, I want to explain to you what the word Tilawa means, it means a way of recitation of the Quran, A WAY not meaning reading different words with different meanings, no the same words, but with different (sounds or phonics)you can say .
And no, the case is not the same with the writting of the Quran, because firstly Muhamed(pbuh) was illiterate, he didn't know how to read or write, he didn't write down the Quran....the Quran was learned by heart, then written down and revised by the prophet and the poeple who knew it by heart......it isn't a gathered wok of different poeple, each telling his own view or opinion about certain issue.....
What proves my point is that there's no contradicting verses in the Quran.
Hmmm.. I have to disagree with you here Omya, or maybe you can explain this different version of how the Quaran came into existance
first the contridictions I know about.. and as you may have read in other postings.. Jesus himself is meant to come and kill all Jews and Christians..so these Suras certainly stand in contradiction to each other. On one hand we are meant to be dealt with kindly, on the other to be faught against as unbelievers and those who disagree.
There are contradictory attitudes toward non-Muslims. S. 2:189 says to fight against unbelievers and Suratut-Taubah says to make war on those who disagree, but S. 2:579 says there is no compulsion in religion and S. 24:45 says to dispute only kindly with Jews and Christians.
Now look at the historical inaccuracies found in the Quaran (again, only the ones I know of
Muhammad was illiterate. He depended on oral information from Christians and especially from Jews. The corruption of oral transmission explains the inaccuracies of the stories. Historical errors include: Mary being the sister of Aaron(S. 3:31ff), Haman being Pharaoh's minister (S.28:38), and the conflation of Gideon and Saul (S. 2:250).
and what of the Al-Fatihah? The opening Sura? In my translation of the Quran it is written immediately at the beginning of the Sura
"The Opening, The Opening of Scripture, the Essence of the Koran" as it has been variously named, has been called the Lord's prayer of the Muslims. It is an essential part of all Muslim worship, public and private and and no solemn contract or transaction is complete unless it is recited.
The date of revelation is uncertain, ................ but it is clear it was revealed before the fourth year of the Prophet's mission (the tenth-year before the Hijarah)...."
The Fatiha (Sura 1) is generally not considered to be an original part of the Koran. Even the earliest Muslim commentators (e.g. Abu Bakr al Asamm d. 313) did not consider it canonical.
and finally
Abu 'Ubaid al-Qasim . Sallam (154-244 AH) studied under renown scholars and himself became well known as a philologist, jurist and Koranic expert. His chapter contains a list of Hadith on the missing verses of the Koran. According to these Hadith:
* 'Umar is recorded as saying that much of the Koran has disappeared.
* Ai'sha ways that sura 33 used to have 200 verses, but much of it has been lost.
* Ibn Ka'b says that Sura 33 had as many verses as sura 2 (i.e. at least 200 verses), and included the verses on stoning [NB: as the Sura 33 has 73 verses today.]
* 'Uthman also refers to the missing verses on the stoning of adulterers (several different Hadith all report this).
* Ibn Ka'b and al-Khattab differed over whether S. xxxlii:6 (sic) was part of the Koran or not.
* Several people (Abu Waqid al-Laithi, Abu Musa al-Ash'ari, Zaid b. Arqam, and Jabir b. 'Abdallah) remember an aya about humans being greedy which is not now in the Koran.
* Ibn Abbas confesses to hearing things and not knowing if they were part of the Koran or not.
* Abi Ayyub b. Yunus reports a verse that he read in A'isha's codex that is not now in the Koran, and adds that A'isha accused 'Uthman of having altered the Koran.
* ' Adi b. 'Adi comment on the existence an other missing verses, the previous existence of which was confirmed by Zaid ibn Thabit.
* 'Umar questioned the loss of another verse, and was informed by 'Abd ar-Rahman b. 'Auf that "It dropped out among what dropped from the Koran."
'Ubaid concludes the chapter by asserting that these verses were all genuine and used to be recited during prayers, but they were not passed down by the savants because they were considered extra, similar to verses contained elsewhere in the Koran.
Now.. I am obviously quoting here.. and I encourage you to go look at this website for a more detailed reading of all these discrepencies and please when you can omya, can you let me know your understanding of all the changes and contradictions and deliberate leaving out of certain surahs and verses.
http://www.debate.org.uk/topics/books/o ... koran.html
By the way, thanks for the dialogue. I'm learning lots here and do TRULY appreciate all the discussions we are all having in this forum.
Carol