Omar Suleiman

And there's only one version of it.

And so when I'm reciting the Quran,

If I say oo or ee or ah differently, an Ethiopian Muslim, a Chinese Muslim, a Yemeni Muslim can correct me.

An eight year old kid in any one of those countries can correct me because they will know that this is not how it's memorized.

And so it was memorized from the start, committed to memory in the time of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.

And preserved in writing and passed down and memorized by millions and millions of people around the world.

And it's 600 pages.

And you can't go to a city in America without

a city in the United States of America, and not find at least one person or a group of people that memorize it, that have committed it to memory.

And so there's an emphasis on committing it to memory as well as understanding it and applying it and practicing it as much as we can.

Well, like I said, so you've got the original revelations of those scriptures, but there are so many versions of those scriptures and there are times throughout history where there have been changes just from an objective perspective, right?

What is the original scripture that was given to Moses, peace be upon him, and what was initially communicated to Jesus, peace be upon him.

Those things have changed over time.

However, there's still some truth that remains even in those scriptures.

And so there are still things that line up, especially with the Old Testament and Islam.

There are still many things that line up between the two, the Bible as well, the New Testament.

Now, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, it's different because these are not original scriptures.

These are testimonies that were obviously collected

around the entire phenomenon of the coming of Christ, but the authors themselves, the biographies, the documentation, even of those original testimonies and gospels, what made the cut in terms of being included within the gospels and what didn't, because there are many gospels at the time in that sense, is different from what we believe was scripture communicated to Jesus, peace be upon him.

The Quran is different in several ways, but it confirms what came before it, but it's the document and preserved word of God to be recited throughout time.