What is the Quran?

The quran is the sacred writing of Islam, which, according to Muslims, is the transcription of a tablet that is preserved in the sky, known as "The mother of the book", and that God (Allah in this case) revealed the Prophet Muhammad through the Archangel Gabriel in a period of 20 years.
According to Islamic tradition, as Muhammad received the revelation from him, he recited it to his disciples, who learned it by heart or wrote it down.
The current compilation of Koran It is due to the third caliph named Utman (the caliphs are successors of Muhammad), who, after seeing the reciters of the KoranHe feared that the sacred texts would be lost, so he ordered the various copies to be collected and decided to establish a unique and definitive one.
In his mission, Utmán, faced different difficulties, one of them was the still incipient development of Arabic writing and the different interpretations that the reciters made of the text of the same.
The compilers of the texts that make up the quran, they did not follow a chronological order or a thematic systematization, they arranged the texts according to the prophet's instructions, which show that the texts of greater length were placed first and then those that were of lesser length were placed. extension.

With a total of 114 chapters known by the name of suras, divided into verses called ayats that make up a text of approximately 80 thousand words, the quranIn addition to being a religious book, it is also a civil code for its faithful, who find in it everything they need to know how to live to be close to Allah.
The revelation made to Muhammad and recorded in the quran, is based on an absolute monotheism, that is to say that there is only one God named Allah who is the omnipotent creator and merciful, he also talks about a final judgment in which the good will be rewarded and the sinners punished. On the quran it reflects the power, wisdom and authority of the only God.
The quran It is a text of a sacred nature so its content must be recited in Arabic even when the person who does it does not speak or understand this language, likewise, Muslims have opposed what the quran it was translated into other languages, especially western ones.
Currently, the quran it remains the holy book for Muslims and for those who mean a moral, social, political and religious code.