There are many doubts about the original sense of words and sentences in the Qur’an because, in the oldest manuscripts, the Arabic letters lack dots and diacritical marks, thus 23 of the 28 Arabic letters have an uncertain reading.
There are no fewer doubts about the integrity of the text: Some Shiite scholars affirm that many passages of the Qur’an have been suppressed or altered, especially those referring to Ali. Even more accusations of this type are made by Sunnite scholars.
All the Suras (chapters), apart from the first, were put after the longest to the shortest, without considering the order in which the supposed revelations happened. So, the Qur’an presents a confused mixture that does not take contexts into account.
Moreover, the grammar and vocabulary of many portions is simply defective. As the Qur’an is supposed to be God’s perfect and unaltered word, created, or even uncreated (!), before the creation of the world , most believers seek deeply hidden mystical values in the typos, mistakes and plain gibberish it contains. An exception to this rule is Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), who cautiously wrote: “The men around Muhammad [and the following generations that imitated them] wrote the Koran in their own script, which was not of a firmly established good quality”.
The Qur’an is a text without rhyme or reason.
The Qur’an is naked like the Emperor in Andersen's story.
Those who pretend having read and understood it are fooling themselves and the others.
As the text of the Qur’an doesn't have a coherent meaning, anyone can make it say anything he wishes.
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