It's important to note that if the Qur'an had been revealed all at once, people would ask, "Why was it sent down all at once and not in stages?" The ultimate answer to such questions lies with God, th

The Prophet himself took care of the actual arrangement of the revelation, when it was written down. Zaid is reported to have said: "We used to compile the Qur'an from small scraps in the presence of

The Qur'an was not only written down by those Companions who did so on their own initiative. Indeed, the Prophet, when a revelation came, called for the scribe and dictated to him.

The fact that some of the earliest historical reports make special mention in the accounts of the battles that were fought, of Muslims killed who knew (something of) the Qur'an by heart, gives a clear

Literally, 'tajwid' means improvement and perfection. If you do something with tajwid it means you are trying to do it with the utmost quality and in the most perfect way possible. The term is technic

If the human mind were to try to explain the total break between Muhammad's life before receiving his message and his life after it, it would inevitably conclude that the new knowledge Muhammad expres