Differences in Qur'anic manuscripts
God willing, I will provide conclusive evidence that all the differences that may exist between any Qur’anic manuscript and the current text are nothing but spontaneous, unintended errors resulting from (auditory confusion), (visual confusion), or (mental confusion). Auditory confusion: When a copyist writes a manuscript by dictation and the person who reads it dictates a certain word to him, the copyist makes a mistake and hears it in a different way due to the similarity of the two words, such as (ya'maloon) (ya'mahoon). Visual confusion: for example: Zaid went to the library, bought books from the library, and returned home. The copyist writes the first sentence, and when he returns to write the second sentence, his eye falls by mistake on the second word (library) instead of the first, so he drops the phrase (and bought books from the library) because of the similarity of the endings. This mistake is called (Homeoteleuton). Its counterpart is the erro...