Preservation of the Quran Past and Future
Quran Talk Blog · Article · April 14, 2022
[Warsh & Qalun 36:67] Whomever we permit to live for a long time, we revert him to weakness. Do you not understand?
(٦٨) وَمَنْ نُعَمِّرْهُ نُنَكِّسْهُ فِي الْخَلْقِ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ
Future Potential Ways of Preservation
The reason that at the beginning of this article I stated that these are the mechanisms that God utilized to preserve the Quran that we have “to date” is that up until 1974 the fourth mechanism of Code 19 was not known by people so there is no reason to doubt that future generations will not discover other mechanisms that God has utilized for the further protection and preservation of the Quran.
Looking retrospectively, it seems that the mechanisms that guard the Quran become progressively stronger as the sophistication of the people increases causing more skepticism towards the Quran. Extrapolating that further, the following verse potentially provides some ideas to how these mechanisms for further preservation could come to fruition and provide even more assurances for the believers.
We will show them our proofs in the horizons, and within themselves, until they realize that this is the truth.* Is your Lord not sufficient, as a witness of all things?