Scholars are
free to hold any view but if they take to lies or half-truths to support their
views, they do far greater harm to their community than any good. They become
conspirators and traitors. And as for
any Muslim scholar who dreams of editing the Qur’an or dismissing it
altogether, he must learn lesson from history. The Moghul Emperor Akbar the
Great who styled himself a reformer of Islām - arriving almost 1,000 years
after the Prophet Muḥammad, introduced a modified version of
Islam, Din e Ilahi. He couldn’t make even a score of converts in his
long life. Where do people like the present day proponents of a modified Qur’an
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