Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 131
132 memory that if any of them made any error, another was present to correct him immediately. That is to say, the H uff a z (plural of Hafiz) of the Holy Quran, all of them together, could not have made a mistake unanimously. The large number of H uff a z was due to a special plan of Allah the Almighty, because when the Holy Quran was started to be printed on paper the number of H uff a z started to come down. From this we learn that this method was also a part of the Divine scheme, and that human planning had nothing to do with it. As for the preservation of its true meaning Allah the Almighty raised noble Auliy a ’ (holy people), in every century, in the beginning, in the middle, and also at the end of it; who, by the grace of Allah, were so close to Him that He Himself taught them the science of the Holy Quran. He Himself became their teacher. Such people fulfilled the requirements of their age, addressed the issues and resolved the problems of their time. Now, again, Allah the Almighty has initiated a stupendous movement in the world by the Promised Messiah as so as to spread the light of Islam and make it prevail in every part of the world. Out of His sheer grace, He has enabled us to join the fold of the Promised Messiah as and provided us with the opportunity to offer sacrifices which He wants us to make in order to attain His pleasure. May everyone of us attain His pleasure. Thus has Allah preserved the Holy Quran both textually and semantically. He has preserved the Holy Quran in such circumstances and in such ways that