The Era of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

  How Do We Know The Quran Hasn’t Changed? How can we be sure that the Qur’an we have today is the same Qur’an that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ taught to his companions 1400 years ago? This is a central question to the legitimacy of the religion of Islam, and to answer it, we need to know how the Qur’an was given to the Prophet ﷺ, preserved by his companions, and distributed around the Muslim world. This is a story of language, history, and the commitment of an entire civilisation to preserving the words of God. The Era of the Prophet Muhammad   ﷺ According to the Muslim understanding, the Qur’an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ over 23 years, from the age of 40 to his death at the age of 63. Over those 23 years, he received the revelation from God in a number of ways. Most commonly, it was spoken to him directly by the Angel Gabriel, but at other times it came during his dreams, and on a number of occasions, it even came to him directly from God, and he experienced this as the soun