(c) Some may say that it is not correct to base one's...
(c) Some may say that it is not correct to base one's argument about the absence of corruption in the Qur'anic text on that text itself, because it is possible that the verse on which this argument is based might have itself undergone textual corruption. Thus, if we allow the possibility of interpolation in verse 15:9, we cannot validly base our argument upon it.11 The answer to this objection is that there is consensus among all Muslim scholars as to the absence of corruption in this verse.
Moreover, no one has ever claimed that the verse has undergone tahrif or interpolation. Another verse of the Qur'an which is cited to support the immunity of the Qur'an from tahrif is the following one: لا يَأْتِيهِ الْبَاطِلُ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَلا مِنْ خَلْفِهِ تَنزِيلٌ مِنْ حَكِيمٍ حَمِيدٍ Falsehood comes not to it from before it nor from behind it; a sending down from One All-wise, All-laudable. (41:42) This verse states that no kind of falsehood…
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