The Immutability of the Qur’an: a concept map

“Indeed We have sent down the Reminder, and indeed We will preserve it” (15:9). ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī explains how the Qur’an is protected: nothing added to it or lost from it, no falsehood able to enter it now or until the Resurrection, words that no one can change, and verses that confirm one another. He also explains why the same was not true of the scriptures before it. Each point opens his own words in the commentary.

“We will preserve it”

Words no one can change

Unlike the earlier scriptures

Immutability

The Qur’an kept free of alteration

“Falsehood cannot approach it”

Whole and consistent

Choose any point to read what the ʿAllāmah says.

All concept maps · More: every section of al-Mizan on this subject in the Topic Index. The ʿAllāmah’s own excursus, “The Qur’an being Immune to Distortion” (in seven sections), is in the printed volume 23, after his commentary on 15:9, and will be in the Al-Mizan Study App.