Muslims must by default place their faith in humans before Allah due to how the Qur’an was compiled into its current form

1. Do you apply this same ‘verification regimen’ to the texts of all other religions as well? After all, we have far less evidence to verify the authorship and/or provenance of many of the world’s religious texts when compared to that of the Qur’an. As such, are you proposing that all religions are demonstrably false?

2. > first potentially weak link in the chain is Muhammad.

   I disagree, the weakest link is Jibreel.

   Angels don’t have names and can be proven.

   But Islamists are completely ignorant and unaware of this truth.

3. > I will try to be objective.

   Arabic literature had been standardised after the Persian conquest. All of your assumptions of having a committee over what is from Quran or not doesn’t fit into the cadre of this reality.

   The Arabic language existed along with its writing styles, along with its sayings, along with its accents. There were no committee to be built comparable to Christian councils as the oral tradition was for more stronger than other culture then Christianity and Judaism’s.

   But this spread-out culture about Arabic allow one thing, there were plenty of witnesses and notes about which verse had been revealed or not, as people from whole of Arabia had memorised the Quran.

   If there was only few people who were interested in a text, like happened with Gospels, the issue would be the case, but as the congregation was larger and people learnt the Book by memorising not reading, their linguistic skills were the backup.

   > And I postulate that this is not faith in Allah, but faith in the honesty and reliability of man.

   God decreed that each of His revelation had been explained by Him, and Sahaba had used the explanation given by God as they were able to rule (!) a wide portion of land in peace, because people wanted to leave their previous habits and admit the new rule.

   The religion is about everything and it is like water and air, it matches to human needs, stories about the religion has no priority over the religion itself.

   TL:DR; As people do not want to submit to God’s code, they don’t trust Him.

4. It’s really much simple than that, if the Quran was from Prophet muhammed imagination or from the companies of the prophet conspiratory to come up with imaginary Quran. Then come up with another one your self, if it’s all done by humans .
   Throughout human history many attemps were made to do such including last attempt in 1999 under the name True Furqan and all were just hilarious compared to Quran. You think it’s all human imagination, sure go ahead make one ur self

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6. We already know that. That’s why Sunnis have huge problems with radical Muslims such as the Shi’is, Ibadis, Salafis, and Liberals. If you undermine the credibility of the majority, you undermine Islam itself. That’s why the aforementioned groups are very prone to apostasy. For example, some Shi’is have claimed that the Quran was fabricated, like the Bible. Some Salafis have claimed that Islam was changed like Christianity. You can clearly see how fast it can go downhill from there. As such, we argue that indeed the Companions and the Prophet, peace be upon them, are indeed trustworthy. Indeed, that doctrine is the essential difference between Islam and disbelief.

   So to address your points briefly: (1) the Prophet pbuh has taught that he is infallible. So, since we trust him, we believe that the possibility of him making a mistake is zero. (2) The statement of Zayd is an expression of piety and humility. The task’s difficulty is attached to the holy status of the Quran and the great responsibility pertaining to it. (3) Thousands of companions had already memorised the Quran, getting two written testimonies (not oral) for each verse was already an overkill that reflects their piety. The Quran is essentially transmitted orally. (4) You underestimate the perfectionism of the Huffaz. A change of a single letter would be be detected and cause an uproar. (5) Faith is not placed in the person of the Caliph, rather it is placed into the entire Muslim community who accepted the procedure. Even secular scholarship acknowledges that the Uthmanic codex is the most accurate.

7. > As the verses were revealed, some longer than others, Muhammad could very possibly have forgotten or jumbled them in his head before sharing them with his companions.

   Your argument seems to assume/acknowledge the existence of Allah (SWT) and the angel Gabriel who transmitted the Quran to the prophet (SAW) . So it’s not like you’re saying the prophet (SAW) made it all up himself, memorized it and then preached it, right?

   So since Allah (SWT) ultimately oversaw everything, we can be sure that He guarded the Quran and made sure it was preserved from the time of the prophet to its compilation by his companions to the present day.

   Allah (SWT) says so Himself.

   – Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur’an and indeed, We will be its guardian. (15:9)

   So there’s no room for human error distorting the Quran at any point.

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