Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 76
76 In addition to these sciences, thousands of people were inspired with the desire to commit the Holy Quran to memory. The text of the Holy Quran, being neither prose nor poetry, is very easy to commit to memory. Those who have any experience of memorizing texts of some size know that the Holy Quran is the easiest to memorize. On the one hand, the Holy Quran was revealed in a form that was easy to memorize, and, on the other, hundreds of thousands of people were motivated to memorize it. Since it is compulsory for every Muslim to recite verses of the Holy Quran in the five-time daily prayers, every believer becomes a preserver of some portion of the Holy Quran. Even if, God for - bid, all existing copies of the Holy Quran were somehow lost, it would still not disappear from the world. I have given only a few examples here, but these should be suf - ficient to prove that God has made formidable provisions for the preservation of the form of the Holy Quran so that there is no danger of it ever being lost. The question now arises that if the words in themselves are not the real objective and yet God has provided such tremendous means for their preservation, would He then have left its meaning and content without any protection? Any reasonable person will admit that this is impossible. If God has provided the means for safeguarding the form of the Holy Quran, He must have made still greater provisions for safeguarding its essence. This is indeed true because the following verse speaks of the protection of both its form and content: 8 اَّنِا ُنْحَن اَنْلَّزَن َرْكِّذلا َو اَّنِا ٗهَل َنْوُظِفٰحَل