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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the Muslims’ holy book?
A
Bible
B
Torah
C
Koran
D
Bhagavad Gita
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Muslims believe that the Qur’an, the holy book of Islam, was revealed to Muhammad over a period of twenty-three years, starting with the initial revelation at Mount Hira. After the Prophet’s death, his successors compiled these divine revelations in a manuscript.

Detailed explanation-2: -These include the Quran (given to Muhammad), the Torah (given to Moses), the Gospel (given to Jesus), the Psalms (given to David), and the Scrolls (given to Abraham).

Detailed explanation-3: -The word qurʾān, which occurs already within the Islamic scripture itself (e.g., 9:111 and 75:17–18), is derived from the verb qaraʾa-“to read, ‘’ “to recite”-but there is probably also some connection with the Syriac qeryānā, “reading, ‘’ used for the recitation of scriptural readings during church services.

Detailed explanation-4: -Islamic and Arabic scholars say the spelling Qur’an is preferred, but in much of the non-Arabic, Western press, the name of the scripture is more commonly spelled Koran. (The Sun uses Quran in its news stories.) Scholars say the issue is transliteration, or spelling a word in a language in which it did not originate.

Detailed explanation-5: -The present form of the Quran text is accepted by Muslim scholars to be the original version compiled by Abu Bakr.

Detailed explanation-6: -Al Quran is the word of God dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel. Quran isn’t an English word but an Arabic one. The root word for “Quran” is Iqr’a (read, in the Arabic language). Quran is literally meaning recitation. The word meaning of the Quran also includes reading with understanding and learning.

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