10 shocking facts

	Qur’ān 																			New Testament

1. It was recited by Muhammad, as the overwhelming majority of non-Muslim scholars believe.						A majority of academic scholars admit that most of the New Testament books were written by unknown authors. There is near-unanimity that the authors of the four Gospels are unknown.

2. It was memorized and transmitted orally from the first Muslim generation until today.							No oral preservation of the text exists.

3. We have manuscripts from the first century of the Hegira that cover the whole text. 							No manuscript from the first century exists today.

4. Muslims from the first century after the Qur’ān was revealed used to read the whole text periodically 					We have no idea about the attitude of the Christians toward the New Testament in the first century.
	as was commanded by their Prophet, and they listened to the recitation of its whole text 							And there is strong evidence that the New Testament’s books were not collected in one authoritative book in that century.
	at least once a year in the month of Ramadān.
	Children were taught to memorize it at the beginning of their academic career.

5. The official copy was agreed upon and established in the era of the Companions of the Prophet.						The Gospels were written by unknown authors. There is no historical proof to prove that the disciples knew these books.

6. The official copy was approved by thousands of the Companions; 										There is no official copy.
	many of them accepted the official version (which differed from theirs) because
	they saw the need for a unified copy that preserved the original text.

7. The sectarian schism in the first centuries did not result in the emergence of different Qur’ān-s,						Sectarian schism was the main reason for the creation of huge number of books which claim that they are the word of God, or to which the new sects attribute a divine source.
	even though some of the conflicts were bloody.

8. Muslims have their Holy book in its original language. 												The Messiah spoke Aramaic (or maybe Hebrew), but the New Testament books were written in Greek, a language most likely not known to the Messiah.

9. We have even the smallest details of the history of the Qur’ān.											The first hundred years after the writing of the autographs is an obscure zone.

10. There does not exist any dogmatic issue behind the variants as reported by the Companions.						Dogmatic was behind putting part of the oral tradition into written form and also the emergence of what later were called “canonical” and “non-canonical” writings.
																					Later on, dogmatism was behind the corruption of some passages of the canonical books.