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0:00thanks for clicking so scholar paid 2
0:03million to find mistakes in Quran and
0:07shocked by what he found wow that's a
0:11whole lot guys let's check it out this
0:14is Professor Marin van Putin who
0:17received a whopping €2 million EUR Grant
0:20by the European research Council to
0:22linguistically take apart the Quran and
0:24figure out whether it lives up to its
0:27extraordinary claims as a perfect
0:30preserved book originating in the middle
0:32of the 7th
0:33Century before we get to what his
0:35analysis revealed it's worth quickly
0:37going over the standard Muslim timeline
0:41this gives us a frame of reference to
0:43compare the professor's scholarship
0:45against in 610 CE Prophet Muhammad
0:50sallallahu alaihi wasallam receives his
0:53first revelation in
0:55632 CE the prophet sallallahu alaihi
0:59wasallam passed away and all Revelation
1:02ceases by now the Quran has been
1:04entirely memorized and inscribed on
1:07various perishable
1:09material in 632
1:12CE um from various written material and
1:15men's Hearts khif
1:18abak gathers the Quran into a single
1:22book mus note the prophet died this very
1:26same year on the 25th year of the Hijra
1:30647
1:33CE standardizes the Quran back toi
1:37dialect throughout the Muslim lands the
1:40period between the prophet sallallahu
1:42alaihi wasallam death and
1:43standardization of Quran is about 15
1:45years now bear this in mind this is the
1:49Crux according to the Muslim sources the
1:52Quran was standardized by about 647 CE
1:57by the Third khif
2:00[Music]
2:01and it is this claim that's being tested
2:05today now one last important thing
2:08before we get to the professor's
2:10remarkable findings what does
2:12standardization actually mean well from
2:15the time of the Prophet sallallah alaih
2:17wasallam to the third
2:20khif a 15-year period the Quran could be
2:24recited in seven Arabic dialects called
2:27aru now this doesn't mean
2:30seven different qurans it means the
2:33seven readings of the Quran are the same
2:36but there are minute dialectical
2:38differences in how certain words are
2:41pronounced and spelled this flexibility
2:44existed to assist the non- quori Arabs
2:47with their recitation what's important
2:49to remember is these seven readings are
2:52mentioned in authentic aith and so
2:55they're a part of the canonical readings
2:57of the Quran they're not Corruptions and
2:59they certainly don't impact the theology
3:02so the standardization process was
3:04basically
3:05khif restoring the quranic recitation
3:09back to the main quesi dialect always
3:12the most popular one that the Quran was
3:14originally revealed in
3:16why because by about 647 CE the
3:21different Arabic dialects were starting
3:23to confuse the new Muslims joining the
3:26growing caliphate now to our academic
3:29leader in the field of historical
3:32Linguistics who specializes in the
3:34linguistic history of Arabic berber and
3:37Semitic Marin van Putin PhD 2013 of
3:42Leiden University who focuses his
3:44research on the textual history of the
3:46Quran and the early history of the
3:49quranic reading
3:50traditions for your information he's not
3:53a Muslim and his only motivation is to
3:56subject the earliest Quran manuscript s
4:00to the historical critical method so the
4:032 million euro question has the Quran
4:07been Faithfully preserved cuz that's the
4:10Bold claim Islam makes right quote
4:13verily we it is we who have sent down
4:17the Vick and surely we will guard it
4:21from corruption this but if you look at
4:23the text really look at the text and
4:24look at the early manuscripts not many
4:26people are looking at them the first
4:27thing that will strike you is that how
4:29similar are they are extremely similar I
4:31mean it's really a totally different
4:33story than than with the New Testament
4:34but even you know with with like early
4:36early uh Hebrew Bible stuff it's it's
4:38much much more chaotic you can sense the
4:40surprise in the professor's voice can't
4:42you in terms of what he's encountered
4:45with these manuscripts it was clearly a
4:48surprise by way of comparison he
4:51mentions the Hebrew Bible and the New
4:53Testament but it's clear the Quran is in
4:56a league of its own and then you look at
4:58the Quran it's just it's the same thing
5:00over and over again it's not just the
5:01same thing you know like in general
5:02Lines no it's down not just down to the
5:04words it's down to the spellings right
5:06even the specific spellings and
5:07sometimes really random spellings are
5:09copied Faithfully over and over again
5:11sometimes a word can be spelled in two
5:12ways but they'll always write in one
5:14place in one way and the other place in
5:16another way and you don't get any mixing
5:18in that ear man so really um scribes
5:20took took the utmost care to really
5:22carefully copy these managements the
5:24professor is so taken back by the level
5:26of meticulous attention to the process
5:29of preserv a he observed in these early
5:31manuscripts he grudgingly juggles the
5:34idea of the early Muslims doing
5:35something extraordinarily anachronistic
5:38like a post-modern Interfaith textual
5:40critique something unheard of until the
5:43post-enlightenment landscape of modern
5:45Academia you know it's like well is that
5:47because of an example of the text I
5:49don't know um that that is putting a lot
5:50of
5:52um faith in knowledge of textual
5:55problems in the person whoever composed
5:57the Quran um which they may have you
5:59know um but how how aware were people of
6:02these
6:03issues now obviously being an academic
6:05working within the framework of the
6:07Historical Method he can't attribute
6:10this perfect preservation to a god no
6:13matter the extraordinary things he
6:15stumbles upon exploring the Quran he has
6:18to confine his answer to an academic one
6:21that's what he gets paid Millions for
6:24theology just doesn't figure I'm afraid
6:27um but the Quan does take pains to say
6:28you know look you know this this text is
6:30in some way uh protected from corruption
6:32and this previous texts were corrupted
6:34so I think that that you know that was a
6:37kind of self-fulfilling prophecy you
6:38know if the Quran says it has to be it
6:39has to be uh preserved and it will be
6:41preserved yeah obviously uh followers
6:43are going to try really hard to do so
6:45and they do I mean they're actually very
6:46successful at it so now that we know
6:49that he has found the Quran to be
6:51Faithfully transmitted between the
6:52earliest scribes does he also find the
6:55earliest manuscripts go back to the
6:58uthmanic recension when according to the
6:59Muslim sources it was standardized and
7:02then the question kind of becomes okay
7:03so so when when was this text
7:05standardized we have an early standard
7:06text so just to be clear we have
7:08hundreds of manuscripts and every single
7:10one of them are part of the same text
7:13type the standard text except for one
7:15which we'll get to in a second as well
7:16but uh I'll repeat it here as well uh
7:19but all of them are the same text and
7:20all of them are you know letter by
7:22letter basically identical small changes
7:24here and there of course like like it
7:25would always be uh but it's really
7:27really carefully controlled for which
7:29suggest that was a common ancestor so
7:30there was a single written text people
7:31were not you know hearing the Quran
7:33recited and writing down what they heard
7:36no no no they had a written copy and
7:37that copy was distributed across the
7:39Empire and that was copied and copied
7:40and copied extremely carefully to the
7:42point that you know there's barely any
7:44difference is there the text is
7:45identical so the fact there are hundreds
7:48of manuscripts of the same text type
7:51quote identical letter by letter
7:54suggests to him there was a common
7:55ancestor a master text he uses an
7:58interesting choice of words here quote
8:01they had a written copy and that copy
8:02was distributed across the Empire and
8:04that copy was copied and copied
8:06extremely carefully so the texts are
8:09identical the fascinating thing here is
8:11frankly the extraordinary thing that's
8:14exactly the journey the Quran underwent
8:17according to the standard Muslim
8:19narrative what do you
8:22know standardized the text in 647 CE or
8:26thereabouts and distributed this Master
8:29version throughout the Empire and then
8:31the master text was carefully copied
8:33thereafter Subhan Allah so we can safely
8:36say the professor does find the Quran to
8:39have been Faithfully
8:40preserved now the professor will discuss
8:43when as far as he can tell from the data
8:45the standardization likely occurred
8:48remember the Muslim sources claim it
8:49happened in about 647 CE during the KFA
8:54of keep this state in mind as we dive
8:57into the next clip we have radiocarbon
9:00data manuscripts and radiocarbon data
9:01manuscripts give you know dates in of
9:04these manuscripts from say uh the late
9:067th century and uh mid sth century that
9:10that kind of era and uh we have multiple
9:13of those well all of those descend from
9:14a single original text so if they're all
9:16descend from a single original text that
9:18original text must have been even
9:19earlier right because they've been
9:20copied from that um which brings us very
9:22close to a date say around the 650s and
9:24not much later than that earlier is
9:26techn technically possible we have yet
9:27to see real manuscrip that really fall
9:29out in a weird way around around 650 um
9:32which is perfectly in line with the
9:35traditional Muslim narrative about this
9:36um who say that o man the third caleff
9:39who reigned around the 650s standardized
9:41the text and distributed across the
9:43Islamic empire well that seems to be
9:45what we see that really seems seems to
9:46be what happened so Subhan Allah so
9:49Professor Marin van Putin is now
9:51explaining that the sheer number of
9:54identical texts and the fact that
9:56they've all been radiocarbon dated to a
9:58period between 6 50 and 700 CE suggests
10:02they have a common ancestor text that
10:05goes back even further into history to
10:07no later than 650 or perhaps even
10:10slightly
10:11earlier the numbers are important
10:14because if you have the one text carbon
10:17dated to 650 to 700 that might be an
10:22anomaly right but with hundreds
10:25returning the same date it makes it more
10:28likely and
10:29reliable now the fact that these
10:31hundreds of texts are near identical
10:35also suggests they couldn't have been
10:37written randomly or in isolation say
10:39from memory it signals they were
10:42handwritten and there was also a scribal
10:45system in place ensuring
10:47standardization thirdly if you have
10:49hundreds of identical texts in a period
10:52spanning 650 to 700 it suggests their
10:56Master text must have existed
11:00prior to this
11:02period well guess what this places the
11:06standardization of the Quran
11:10remarkably at or just before 650 CE
11:15which is almost precisely the same date
11:19to the year the Muslim sources the ones
11:22that apparently aren't reliable
11:25claim standardized the Quran in 647
11:29CE wow just wow Subhan Allah that is a
11:35remarkable overlap between the Muslim
11:37claim and modern scholarship it truly is
11:42let's get something straight before we
11:44finish the European research council is
11:47a secular body governed by a scientific
11:50Council and funded at a cost of 16
11:52billion euros by some of the most
11:54liberal nations in the world in Western
11:57Europe its president is Maria leptin
12:00herself a molecular
12:02biologist ideologically their mission is
12:05antithetical to religion but they're
12:08going to be more averse to Islam because
12:10inside their Paradigm Islam is the least
12:12reformed and most in need of
12:14intellectual scrutiny they don't exist
12:17to do any favors for religion let's not
12:20beat around the bush frankly to them the
12:23world is a better place without such
12:26Superstition so this organization part
12:28of the European commission headquartered
12:30in Brussels paying out millions of Euros
12:34to intelligent people like our star
12:37linguist Marin
12:38Vantin is coming with the assumption
12:41that science is the solution for pretty
12:44much every problem going and baked into
12:47this bias is the additional assumption
12:50that if enough clever people subject any
12:52religion to enough specialist scrutiny
12:55that religion falls apart and is
12:57inevitably proven a manade
13:00Enterprise so when the opposite happens
13:03and a 300-year strategy for science to
13:07take over the world is upended and
13:09religion is shown in a positive light or
13:11somehow confirmed by a secular critical
13:14study despite the vast amounts of cash
13:18and resources being thrown at it you
13:20know for sure there was just too much
13:23incontrovertible evidence on the side of
13:25religion in this case Islam to Warrant
13:28the find ings the study concluded with
13:31and what were these findings the Islamic
13:35sources are reliable when it comes to
13:37the quranic
13:39narrative the Quran was Faithfully
13:43preserved and the uthmanic Codex does
13:46indeed go back to khalifman who
13:49standardized the text in about 647
13:53CE thank you for watching some people
13:55like to take challenges to people like
13:58to challenge
13:59or accept challenges
14:02because why I don't know why would the
14:05man think there will be mistake in the
14:06Quran why why would you think that I
14:09don't know why you know he's a professor
14:11so professors like to challenge
14:14themselves they like to go deep deep
14:17into research to know about religion
14:20espe if they hear things that no they
14:23might be thinking oh okay let let me
14:26challenge myself because of the fact
14:28that they been saying that okay there's
14:30no mistake in the Quran there's mistake
14:31in the Bible I've read a particular
14:34video like that person said there's
14:36mistake in the Bible but there's never a
14:38mistake in the Quran and there's also a
14:40video that I heard that somebody know
14:43asked made mention on the fact that
14:45there was some kind of errors in the
14:48Quran like even though people think it's
14:50a mistake it can't be called a mistake
14:53because anything that happens in the
14:55Bible or in the Quran it is due to the
14:58is that happened so human eye it might
15:02look like a mistake but during that time
15:05that is what really happened and that's
15:07the experience you get it so this was
15:10really beautiful to watch I just enjoyed
15:12the whole interaction guys thank you so
15:14much for watching I'll see you in the
15:15next one bye

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