Suspicion of Ibn Masoud’s Qur’an, May God be Pleased with Him - that his Qur’an is free from Al-Fatihah and Al-Mu’awwidhatayn

Abstract

     This study aims to clarify the sanctity of the Qur’anic text and its integrity from distortion, alteration and difference. Moreover, it aims to highlight its importance and evidence of its definitiveness clarifying that the suspicion of some orientalists about Ibn Masoud’s Qur’an and rejecting it as something invalid. The study has used the inductive and analytical approach. The researcher has concluded the following:   the entire Qur’anic text, including Al-Fatihah and Al-Ma’widhatayn has the sanctity and its safety from distortion, alteration and disagreement. The summary of Ibn Masoud’s objection is due to writing the Qur’an only - for external reasons - not that he denies its revelation or its Qur’anic feature. He withdraws from that opinion as proved by the prophet's companions that four reciters out of the ten reciters whose recitation is connected to to him, and in it are al-Fatihah and al-Ma’widhatayn. This highlights that the orientalist approach relies on lying, fraud, illusion and reversing the facts, and his loss of the scientific methodology based on evidence and correct proofs.