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This is Professor Marin van Puten who received a whopping 2 million euros grant by the European Research Council What we need to linguistically take apart the Quran and figure out whether it lives up to its Extraordinary claims as a perfectly preserved book originating in the middle of the seventh century Let me stop this real quick and read this out five line researchers have been awarded a Consolidated grant by the European Research Council This grant up to 2 million euros will enable them to continue and expand their scientific research The ERC Consolidated grant is awarded to promising researchers of any age and nationality with between 7 and 12 years of postdoctoral experience They can use the grant of up to 2 million euros to fund a team of core Researchers and support staff over a five-year period So this is extremely impressive of course But we have to clarify the 2 million euros are not only for the one scholar But they gave him 2 million euros to conduct further research Which makes this whole claim even more grandiose because it means they really want to dissect the Quran from every possible Angle and engage a whole team into the meta. This is quite interesting entry Before we get to what his analysis revealed, it's worth quickly going over the standard Muslim timeline This gives us a frame of reference to compare the professor's scholarship against in 610 CE Prophet Muhammad Receives his first revelation in 632 CE the Prophet Passes away and all revelation ceases by now the Quran has been entirely Memorized and inscribed on various perishable material in 632 CE From various written material and men's hearts Khalif Abu Bakr Adil Talha Anhu gathers the Quran into a single book Musaf note the Prophet died this very same year on the 25th year of the hijra 647 CE Othman Radim Adil Talha Anhu Standardizes the Quran back to Quraishi dialect throughout the Muslim lands The period between the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam death and standardization of Quran is about 15 years Now bear this in mind. This is the crux They are in mind that no other religion has anything that can compare to this according to the Muslim sources The Quran was standardized by about 647 CE by the third Khalif Othman Radir Talha Anhu and It is this claim that's being tested today Now one last important thing before we get to the professor's remarkable findings. What does? Standardization actually mean? Well, from the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam to the third Khalif Othman Radir Talha Anhu 15-year period the Quran could be recited in seven Arabic dialects called Ahruf Exactly, and this is what the Islamophobes use against Islam. They say that there are many different versions However, those are just dialects. Now, this doesn't mean seven different Quran's It means the seven readings of the Quran are the same But they don't get it minute dialectical differences in how certain words are pronounced and spelt this flexibility Existed to assist the non-Quraisha Arabs with their recitation What's important to remember is these seven readings are mentioned in authentic Ahadith And so they're a part of the canonical readings of the Quran They're not corruptions and they certainly don't impact the theology So the standardization process was basically Khalif Othman Radir Talha Anhu Restoring the Quranic recitation back to the main Quraishi dialect Always the most popular one that the Quran was originally revealed in Of course, because Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam comes from the Quraishi tribe Aye Because by about 647 CE the different Arabic dialects were starting to confuse the new Muslims joining the growing caliphate Now to our academic a leader in the field of historical Linguistics who specializes in the linguistic history of Arabic, Berber, and Semitic Madin Manputan PhD 2013 of Leiden University who focuses his research on the textual history of the Quran and The early history is full number. I don't think that's a good idea of the Quranic reading traditions For your information, he's not a Muslim and his only motivation is to subject The earliest Quran manuscripts to the historical critical as objective as the 2 million euro question Has the Quran been faithfully preserved? Because that's the bold claim Islam makes right quote Verily we it is we who have sent down the dhikr and surely we will guard it from corruption You can sense the surprise In terms of what he's encountered with these manuscripts It was clearly a surprise Yes, of course it was a surprise because if you look into the Christian sources into the New Testament For example, the earliest gospel could be mark and that was 70 years after Jesus However, the manuscripts that we have are written in Greek and therefore they're not eyewitness accounts They're not written by the apostles of Christ. They're written by Greek philosophers Potentially the apostles of Christ were fishermen and therefore they were highly likely illiterate and even if they could have written Surely they couldn't have written Greek So therefore yet again, you see that there is absolutely no comparison to the Islamic preservation By way of comparison, he mentions the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, but it's clear The Quran is an elite of its own And then you look at the Quran and it's just it's the same thing over and over again It's not just the same thing, you know, like in general lines No, it's down not just down to the words. It's down to the spellings right even the specific spellings And sometimes really random spellings are copied faithfully over and over again Sometimes a word can be spelled in two ways But I'll always write in one place in one way in the other place in another way And you don't get any mixing in that early manuscript. So really um Scribes took took the utmost care to really carefully copy these manuscripts The professor is so taken aback by the level of meticulous attention To the process of preservation and it's always amazing, of course to see somebody Objective or an outsider here that has no skin in the game He's not a Christian trying to debunk Islam But if you look at the Islamophobes, you look at the so-called Christian apologists on youtube You will see of course how they are taking Islam over and over again. However, those claims are false The professor is so taken aback by the level of meticulous attention To the process of preservation he observed in these early manuscripts He grudgingly juggles the idea of the early Muslims doing something extraordinarily anachronistic Like a postmodern interfaith textual critique Something unheard of until the post enlightenment landscape of modern academia You know, it's like well, is that because of an example of the text? I don't know That is putting a lot of Faith In knowledge of textual problems in the person who ever composed a Quran Which they may have, you know But how where were people of these issues? Now obviously being an academic working within the framework of the historical method He can't attribute this perfect preservation to a god No matter the extraordinary things he stumbles upon the story of the Quran He has to confine his answer to an academic one It really does not matter if he attributes the preservation to god or not We as Muslims of course attribute that preservation to god and nobody else However, that being said for me yet again The most beautiful thing here is that a somewhat Atheistic person looks at the Quran and can objectively quantify that yes This has been preserved from the first day out on Meanwhile, the islamophobes are coping and seething anybody with an objective mind would of course see right from wrong That's what he gets paid millions for Theology just doesn't figure i'm afraid But the Quran does take pains to say you know look, you know, this this text is in some way Protected from corruption and these previous texts were corrupted. So I think that that You know, that was a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. You know, if the Quran says it has to be it has to be Preserved and it will be preserved. Yeah, obviously Followers are going to try really hard to do so and they do. I mean, they're actually very successful at it So now that we know that he has found the Quran to be faithfully transmitted between the earliest scribes Does he also find the earliest manuscripts go back to the Uthmanic recension when according to the muslim sources? It was standardized And then the question kind of becomes okay, so so when when was this text standardized? We haven't already standard text and so just to be clear We have hundreds of manuscripts and every single one of them are part of the same text I just standard text except for one, which we'll get to in a second as well But uh, I'll repeat it here as well But all of them are the same text type and all of them are, you know, letter by letter Basically identical small changes here and there of course like like it would always be But it's really really carefully controlled for Which suggests there was a common ancestor. So there was a single written text people Yeah, and moreover as you mentioned if there are slight differences maybe due to dialect or whatnot They're not as different as the gospels are to each other in john for example Jesus exalted as the alpha and the omega in the earlier gospels on the other hand You have no mention of that. So even the gospels themselves They're contradicting each other in terms of storyline and this cannot be said about the quran whatsoever Here in the quran recited and Writing down what they heard. No, no, they had a written copy and that copy was distributed across the empire And that was copied and copied and copied extremely carefully to the point that you know, there's barely any differences there The text is identical So the fact there are hundreds of manuscripts of the same text type quote Identical letter by letter suggests to him there was a common ancestor a master text He uses an interesting choice of words here Quote they had a written copy and that copy was distributed across the empire and that copy was copied and copied Extremely carefully. So the texts are identical The fascinating thing here is frankly the extraordinary thing That's exactly the journey the quran underwent according to the standard muslim narrative What do you know? Standardized the text in 647 ce or their abouts and Distributed this master version throughout the empire and then the master text was carefully copied thereafter Interesting. So we can safely say the professor does find the quran to have been faithfully preserved Now the professor will discuss when as far as he can tell from the data the standardization likely occurred Remember the muslim sources claim it happened in about 647 ce during the khilafah of ruthman Keep this date in mind as we dive into the next clip We have radiocarbon data manuscripts and radiocarbon data manuscripts give you know dates in of these manuscripts on say the late 7th century and mid 7th century that that kind of era And we have multiple of those. Well, all of those descend from a single original text So if they all descend from a single original text that original text must have been even earlier right because they've been copied from that Which brings us very close to a date say around the 650s and not much later than that earlier Technically possible. We have yet to see real manuscripts. I really fall out of line in a weird way Yeah around around 650 Which is perfectly in line with the traditional muslim narrative about this Who say that ruthman the third khilaf who reigned around the 650s Which the muslims are not lying you say? How can that be? That seems to be what we see. That really seems seems to be what happened. So subhanallah So professor marin van putten is now explaining that the sheer number Of identical texts and the fact that they've all been radiocarbon dated to a period between 650 and 700 ce Suggests they have a common ancestor text that goes back even further into history To know later than 650 or perhaps even slightly earlier The numbers are important Because if you have the one text carbon dated to 650 to 700 That might be an anomaly, right? But with hundreds returning the same date it makes it more likely and reliable Now the fact that these hundreds of texts are near identical also suggests they couldn't have been written randomly or in isolation Say from memory It signals they were handwritten and there was also a scribal system in place ensuring standardization Thirdly if you have hundreds of identical texts in a period spanning 650 to 700 It suggests their master text must have existed prior That's what it says period Exactly right. Well, guess what? This places the standardization of the quran remarkably at or just before 650 ce Which is almost Precisely the same date To the year the muslim sources the ones that apparently aren't reliable Claim for thman ready to learn who standardize the quran in 647 ce Wow, just wow Subhanallah That is a remarkable overlap between the muslim claim and modern scholarship It's kind of ironical of course that muslims were claiming this for hundreds and hundreds of years and now finally to the rescue The west comes pays a scholar two million euros and he simply confirms what we already knew he is Let's get something straight before we finish The european research council is a secular body governed by a scientific council has funded at a cost of 16 billion euros by some of the most liberal nations in the world in western europe Its president is maria leptin herself a molecular biologist Ideologically their mission is antithetical to religion But they're going to be more averse to islam because inside their paradigm Islam is the least reformed and most in need of intellectual scrutiny They don't exist to do any favors for religion Let's not beat around the bush Frankly to them the world is a better place without such superstition So this organization part of the european commission Headquartered in brussels Paying out millions of euros to intelligent people like our star linguist malin van putten Is coming with the assumption that science is the solution for pretty much every problem And baked into this bias Is the additional assumption that if enough clever people subject any religion to enough specialist scrutiny That religion falls apart and is inevitably proven a man-made enterprise So when the opposite happens and a 300 year strategy for science to take over the world is upended And a religion is shown in a positive light or somehow confirmed by a secular critical study Despite the vast amounts of cash and resources being thrown at it You know for sure there was just too much Evidence on the side of religion in this case islam to warrant the findings the study concluded with And Findings the islamic sources are reliable when it comes to the quranic narrative The quran was faithfully preserved And the uthmanic codex does indeed go back to caliph othman who standardized the text in about 647 ce Thank you for watching and please subscribe for more latest scholarship supporting the standard muslim narrative Guys, please do me the favor and do not call margin van puten here I'm sure he got a bunch of calls now from muslims congratulating him on his findings I'm sure it is well meant but please hold your finger still that being said guys We as muslims we already believe this and we know this to be true However in the west people do not know that and many muslims are seen discarding the west and saying We don't need their science to know that islam is true Of course that is correct for us. However for the western minds They are of course interested in science more over would say that for many people in the west Science is their god if science says it's true They obey it right away for them science is their quran astaghfirullah, but it's really the case Those people truly worship science and therefore if science confirms it it makes them rethink Therefore it is well needed as well and we should applaud the efforts of the west Of course to scientifically try to debunk islam because like that They're shooting themselves in their own foot and you see that islam prevails yet Again another common w for islam and moreover as i said throughout the video It is hilarious to see that islamo folks from the west try to debunk islam with false claims However, their own science their own communities their own intellectuals are debunking them All right, guys But this is it for today's video if you liked it leave the thumbs up if you haven't subscribed already guys Please do so and if you want to support this channel via patreon for example all the links are in the description box below Thank you so much for your ongoing support guys and as always may god bless you all much love and peace