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396 | Where is the Original Seventh Century Quran, with Dr Jay Smith

New Podcast Let Us Reason - A Christian/Muslim Dialogue

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Why Did Muhammad Burn the Very Things That Actually Existed at the Time of Muhammad?

Kadi: If the idea of burning something that does not really fit the bill, match the reading, then why in the world we discovered a huge trove of evidence that manuscripts were actually protected, stored in basically an attic rather than being burned. These are the Gira'ats and these are the seven that are according to every Muslim where the seven readings, the seven dialects. That's what every Muslim says that existed at the time of Muhammad. They were not Quraysh and burning them. Obviously, this is a historical nachronism.

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