{"_id":"6ac54753277dc64b0a5390d0","title":"{\"format\":\"prosemirror\",\"schemaVersion\":1,\"doc\":{\"type\":\"doc\",\"content\":[{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"attrs\":{\"quillTerminated\":true,\"direction\":null},\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"text\":\"How is the Qur’an’s preservation reconciled with hadiths about religious knowledge disappearing near the end of the world?\"}]}]}}","question":"{\"format\":\"prosemirror\",\"schemaVersion\":1,\"doc\":{\"type\":\"doc\",\"content\":[{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"attrs\":{\"quillTerminated\":true,\"direction\":null},\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"text\":\"Allah says:\"}]},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"attrs\":{\"quillBlock\":{\"align\":\"right\"},\"quillTerminated\":true,\"direction\":null},\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"marks\":[{\"type\":\"bold\"}],\"text\":\"إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا ٱلذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُۥ لَحَـٰفِظُونَ\"}]},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"attrs\":{\"quillTerminated\":true,\"direction\":null},\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"marks\":[{\"type\":\"bold\"}],\"text\":\"“It is certainly We Who have revealed the Reminder, and it is certainly We Who will preserve it.”\"}]},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"attrs\":{\"quillTerminated\":true,\"direction\":null}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"attrs\":{\"quillTerminated\":true,\"direction\":null},\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"text\":\"Does this mean that Allah will preserve the Qur’an and its knowledge in the hearts of people until the last human being? How should this be reconciled with narrations stating that a time will come when people know nothing of the religion except the testimony of faith? Are these narrations authentic, and if so, how do they accord with the preservation of the Qur’an?\"}]}]}}","answer":"{\"format\":\"prosemirror\",\"schemaVersion\":1,\"doc\":{\"type\":\"doc\",\"content\":[{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"attrs\":{\"quillTerminated\":true,\"direction\":null},\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"text\":\"Yes, the Qur'an and the religion of Islam are guaranteed preservation until the end of this world, and the hadiths describing religious knowledge fading do not contradict this. \"}]},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"attrs\":{\"quillTerminated\":true,\"direction\":null}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"attrs\":{\"quillTerminated\":true,\"direction\":null},\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"text\":\"The specific narration you are alluding to describes the phenomenal events that will take place closer to the end of this world, preceding the afterlife:\"}]},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"attrs\":{\"quillTerminated\":true,\"direction\":null}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"attrs\":{\"quillTerminated\":true,\"direction\":null},\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"marks\":[{\"type\":\"italic\"}],\"text\":\"\\\"Islam will wear away as embroidery on a garment wears away, until no one will know what fasting, prayer, pilgrimage, and charity are. The Book of Allah will be taken away at night, and not one verse of it will be left on earth. And there will be some people left, old men and old women, who will say: 'We heard our fathers saying these words: \\\"La ilaha illallah\\\" (There is no god but Allah), so we say them too.'\\\"\"}]},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"attrs\":{\"quillTerminated\":true,\"direction\":null},\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"text\":\"-\"},{\"type\":\"text\",\"marks\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"attrs\":{\"href\":\"https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah:4049\",\"target\":null,\"rel\":null}}],\"text\":\"Sunan Ibn Majah 4049\"}]}]}}","tags":[{"_id":"668d9ff70b76658b4c232a80","tag":"Seerah: Sunnah and Hadith","count":89},{"_id":"668d9fef0b76658b4c232988","tag":"Quran: Other","count":59}],"createdOn":"2026-10-06T19:09:07.790Z"}