[^3]: Editor's Note: According to Almighty Allāh, the Qur'ān...
📌[^3]: Editor's Note: According to Almighty Allāh, the Qur'ān is safeguarded: “We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (15: 9). According to Ayātullāh al-Uzmā Sayyid Muhsin Hakīm Tabātabā'ī, “The opinion of all the elders and the scholars of all the Muslims from the beginning of Islām till now, is that the arrangement of the verses and the chapters are the same, as it is in our hands.
Our elders did not believe in tahrīf [textual change]” (Ahmad 'Alī, The Holy Qur'ān 59a). Ayātullāh al-Uzmā Sayyid Abū al-Qāsim al-Khu'ī has ruled that “Any talk about tahrīf [textual change] of any kind in the Holy Qur'ān is only superstitious. No disarrangement of any kind has taken place in the Holy Qur'ān (61a).…
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