His Eminence answered a group of questions that were raised to him from a Sunni researcher in which he said the following regarding the completion of the Quran: “Muslims from Shia and Sunni sects have unanimously agreed by practical means that whatever between the two covers in the current book is the complete Holy Quran. The current books of Quran that are spread in all Muslim countries serve as evidence to this truth. Muslims consider reciting the entirety of the current copies of the Quran to be the complete reciting of the Book of Allah. Similarly, a recitation of a Surah in the current Quran is considered to be the recitation of the complete Surah. They do not add a word or remove another. The said is clear in their understanding, conduct and in the verdicts of their religious scholars. This practical consensus is one of the strongest proofs of the Muslims’ position in general – whether they are Shia or Sunni – on the Holy Quran. Nothing can stand against such evidence as it expresses the fact that the noble Quran is entirely extant in the current book as an existing and self-evident truth. Muslims have acknowledged it and implemented it, while all fallacies seeking to cause doubt in it have failed.”
