[^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-Uẓmā Sayyid Muḥsin Hakīm Ṭabātabā‘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 taḥrīf [textual change]” (Aḥmad ‘Alī, The Holy Qur’ān 59a). Ayātullāh al-Uẓmā Sayyid Abū al-Qāsim al-Khu‘ī has ruled that “Any talk about taḥrīf [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).” According to Ayātullāh al-‘Uẓmā Sayyid Hādī al-Ḥusaynī al-Milānī, Neither any…
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