Documents of the Right Word

Khalîfas. And yet in this occasion they promote hadrat ’Uthmân to
partnership with Allâhu ta’âlâ.
Kuleynî, a religious authority in Iran, says that Hishâm bin
Sâlim and Muhammad bin Hilâlî stated that the Qur’ân had been
changed. And scholars of Ahl as-Sunna write that Allâhu ta’âlâ
purports, “No one can change Qur’ân al-kerîm.” The forty-second
âyat-i-kerîma of Fussilat sûra purports, “No change can reach that
Qur’ân from any direction. For It has been revealed by One whose
every deed is hakîm and mahmûd.” Who could change something
protected by Allâhu ta’âlâ? It was wâjib for our Prophet to
communicate Qur’ân al-kerîm exactly as it was revealed. In the
time of Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’, when a person
became a Muslim, he would first learn Qur’ân al-kerîm. And
everyone who learned Qur’ân al-kerîm would teach it to others.
There were thousands of Muslims who had memorized Qur’ân alkerîm
in the presence of the Messenger of Allah. It is written in
history books that more than seventy hâfidh al-Qur’ân (people
who had memorized the Qur’ân) were martyred in some Holy
Wars. Until today hundreds of thousands of hâfidh have been
educated in Muslim countries. Their reciting the Qur’ân was a
great worship. Every Muslim recites Qur’ân al-kerîm both as he
performs namâz and elsewhere. Every Muslim child, as soon as it
reaches school age, is first taught passages from Qur’ân al-kerîm.
Qur’ân al-kerîm is unlike the book written by Kuleynî or Abû
Ja’fer Tûsî’s book Tez-hîb, which are kept locked in chests and
read secretly by one or two people! In fact, it is written in all Shiite
books that all the Ahl-i-Bayt-i-Nabawî and the twelve Imâms read
this very Qur’ân al-kerîm. They put forward this Qur’ân al-kerîm
as a document to friends and enemies alike. They explained its
very âyats. The book of Tafsîr which they have been keeping as the
Tafsîr of Imâm-i-Hasan Askerî is the tafsîr (explanation) of this
Qur’ân. The twelve Imâms would teach their children, their
women and their disciples this very Qur’ân al-kerîm. It is for this
reason that Shaikh Ibni Bâbawayh, a Shiite scholar, says in his
book I’tiqâdât that it would be wrong to attack hadrat ’Uthmân
‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ anh’ in this matter.
5- A zindiq [1] (a kind of heretic) studied Qur’ân al-kerîm for
years. He saw the word (Salât) at more than sixty-five places. So
he said that ‘Salât’ meant ‘Prayer’ and therefore one could make
salât continually day and night. He confused the word Salât, which
[1] Terms of this sort are explained in various places of the book.
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