Yeah, and this is what makes Islam's Qur'aan
voracious compared to any other book. And we have a three-pronged approach in which
we prove the veracity of the Qur'aan. Number one, the Qur'aan has been preserved orally.
Number two, it has been preserved by a live language. And number three, it has been preserved
by manuscripts. Now what I mean by that is, if you compare all of the religions, for example,
let's look at the New Testament of the Christians. It's revealed in, well, Jesus spoke Aramaic,
so who knows, but I mean, they're saying it's in Greek. Is Greek one of the top five languages? Is
it spoken generally? No. Let's look at Hebrew of the Old Testament. Is it spoken generally?
It's not. Let's look at Sanskrit of the Hindus. Is it spoken? Is it accessible? It's actually
not accessible. Jesus's language of Aramaic is actually not accessible. Let's look at Arabic. It
is. It's actually at number four or number five. It actually fluctuates. It's a live language.
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Let's look at manuscripts. Muslims are the only ones who claim to have manuscripts of the original
Qur'aan. And we make the claim it's the same book that was there at the time of Muhammad,
peace be upon him. Could you say it was in the language with a definitive fact that
has never ever been even a slang word introduced into that language ever? So there's never been an
abbreviation ever in that language? That's because I have a friend who's from Miami, and he's Cuban,
and I travel around the world with them, and he speaks Spanish, but his Spanish, and this is what
he says, he says, "The further south, it's a Spanish, which is totally different Spanish,
and it's different to the Spanish what is spoken within Spain." So, could you
see it with 100% clarity? And I do understand this. I have read that in order to preserve
Islamic practices of the faith, that you read the Qur'aan so that you know it word by word to help
preserve that, but can you say that there's no difference ever? There's never been even a
different vowel or word or pronunciation or one bit of slang in that language?
Very good. Not one. And that's why, Stephen, I'm giving a three-point approach. Number one
is the living language Arabic. Let's keep that to the side by now, yeah, because Arabic itself is
accessible to everybody, no worries, brilliant, fantastic. Manuscript evidence and verbal
evidence. Now when it comes to something verbal, now can you verify that since we've been here,
the crowd has changed? There are brothers that have come, and some brothers have gone,
and some brothers I don't know here. Now I can tell you confidently, I can read a passage of
the Qur'aan, I can introduce something in this passage in front of you, and they're going to correct me.
Is that right or wrong?
It's wrong
Is that right or wrong?
Wrong. Is that right or wrong?
Wrong. What's the correct one?
So verbal preservation this is the beautiful way in which
the Qur'aan is the only book that claims perfect preservation. In fact,
in the Sunday Times, there was a poll that was done in 1997 of vicars.
They asked the vicars to regurgitate The Ten Commandments, and two out of three
vicars struggled. Now, these are a few lines, but when it comes to the Qur'aan,
I think it's 9,000 or 11,000 lines
of the Qur'aan (depending on how big the size of the Qur'aan is) - you've got Muslims as
young as six in Palestine. There was a girl as young as six who memorized it. And just like
I've proven to you here, Stephen, my friend, this is why Islam is special because Islam,
or the religion from God, naturally, is supposed to be accessible to everybody.
I can't give a highfalutin argument that us academics can understand,
but somebody else would struggle. It needs to be something that a rational individual can come
and go, "you know what? That makes sense." So, in terms of a live language, we've proven
that the Qur'aan is something that's special. In terms of manuscript, the oldest manuscript that
we have is actually located in this country, in Birmingham. It's actually 4 portfolios. You
can Google this when you go home; it's a BBC article. It's actually one of the top three
when you Google "oldest Qur'aan manuscript." It's in this country; it's not even a Muslim country,
Birmingham. And the carbon dating was actually done by the University of Oxford. They've
carbon-dated it, and you can check. I've got cameras here; everything that I'm saying, go home,
and you can check it. So, it was carbon-dated, and they did exactly what you've said. They put
the Qur'aan that we have, and they compared it with the folios. And, Stephen, me standing here,
without a shadow of a doubt, I'm telling you that the founding that they found from I think it's 645
AD, they said there is a 100 percent word accuracy. You can check this yourself; that's the
oldest manuscript. You know what I've done? I've actually, are you happy that that manuscript is in
the UK? Do you know why I am happy with that? It's because some people, when I'm speaking to them,
Stephen, when I ask them, "Where do you think this manuscript is?" they say, "Oh, it's probably in a
Muslim country," or "It's probably you guys are probably saying this, and it's probably done by
your guys." The fact that it's in a non-Muslim country, I think objectively, is in favor of a
true seeker. It makes it easier for them to distinguish and say, "You know what? Okay,
I can accept that." Now let me ask you, Stephen, what do you think about these things that I've
told you about how the Qur'aan has been preserved as opposed to the other books? What do you think
about what I've just said? I think that's a - I took note of that. The fact that I've already
acknowledged the fact that when you've got these three brothers here and you use the whatever,
A verse of the Qur'aan yeah. They were able to repeat that. Yeah, so that preservation is there.