CrushDance said:
As for the Quran not changing, I'm not 100% sure myself, maybe Warrior could expand on it? But it's apparently never been changed as as the word of God should not be. It's like whenever I think of the 10 commandments, they all still apply to us in this day and age regardless and if everyone were to follow them. We'd have a "perfect" society.
You don't have to like Allah, it's your own choice to disagree or agree.
What makes Islam different from christianity and judaism is that Allah promised to keep this Criterion the same as it was revealed to the prophet, many times over and over again
Before hand, God gave the Jews the duty of preserving the Torah and the Injeel ( Gospel)
But in this Criterion He promised He would be The One to preserve it, it is word for word letter by letter dot by dot in the minds and hearts of millions of muslims.
Allah has challenged anyone to come with a verse close to its eloquence and style, no one ever achieved it and no one ever will. And to think, this was revealed to man that could neither write nor read.
Allah promised in the Quran that He would take on the responsibility of protecting His final Word from loss. He said, "Verily I have revealed the Reminder (Quran), and verily I shall preserve it. (Surah al-Hijr (15):9)
Thus, the Quran has been preserved in both the oral as well as written form in a way no other religious book in history has.
Thus, his book of revelation, the Quran, had to be specially preserved from any form of change or loss so that it would be available to all the generations of man until the last day of the world.
The Qur'an today is the very same that flowed through the mouth of the Prophet(saw)