: Can we know that the Qur’an was changed to Arabic?

It seems odd that God (that would be Allah, according to the Muslims) would choose to reveal his “final and greatest revelation“ in a language which could not even accommodate his revelation textually. So, why would he choose Arabic, since it was so crude and as yet un-voweled and un-dotted, therefore unable to be read properly? The answer can be found within the pages of the Qur’an itself. When one looks at certain passages, it becomes clear that the Qur’an was created as a political tool to give the Arabic speaking people their own revelation in contradistinction to the other competing empire, the Byzantine Christian Empire, whose religious language was Aramaic, and whose revelation included the Old and New Testaments. Note certain Qur’anic passages where this distinction is referred to: (Surah 12:2) Here it says that the Qur’an was “sent down as an Arabic Qur’an, so you people may understand the reason“, suggesting that there must be some other Q
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