The Qur’an’s Authority

Articles on the Qur’an as complete, preserved, sufficient, and the final criterion.

This section examines a foundational question: is the Qur’an sufficient and final as the criterion for religious guidance, truth and falsehood, tawhid, worship, justice, taqwa, the Hereafter, and the boundaries of faith and wrongdoing; or should the Qur’an’s authority be placed under later reports, sectarian legal systems, inherited religious customs, and religious power?

The articles here study Qur’an completeness from within the Qur’an itself: divine preservation, the difference between Qur’an and Hadith, the danger of following probability as religion, the public transmission of the Qur’an, the Prophet’s role as deliverer of the message, the relation between Qur’an and later religious traditions, and why no statement can be placed before the signs of The God.