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               various     forms,     including          6.  Reason       for     the
               memorizing  the  Quran,  its                 Miracle (I'jaz)
               continuous recitation, and writing.    The  miracle of  the Quran has
                  Based  on  this  repetition,       various  dimensions,  one  of
               Muslims  believe  that  the           which,  and  perhaps  the  most
               current  Mushaf  has  reached         important,  is  eloquence  and
               them  from  the  time  of  the        rhetoric, which depend entirely
               Holy Prophet until today, and         on the word and its meaning.
               despite such a repetition, there         On  the  other  hand,  the
               is  no  room  for  suspicion  of      Holy  Quran  has  challenged
               distortion;    (Javadi    Amoli,      for its miracle and called the
               2019: 106) because the Quran          opponents  to  confront,  [Ref:
               is  consistent  in  every  word       An-Nisa:  82;  Al-Isra:  88;
               and letter.                           Hud:  13and42;  Yunus:  38]
                  Therefore,  what  is  said  in     that this group of verses with
               the  context  of  distortion  that    determination,  confirms  the
               such  a  word  or  sentence  has      revelation  and  transcendence

               been  changed  in  the  Quran,        of  the  appearance,  interior,
               because it is not acceptable by       word  and  meaning  of  the
                                                                              human
                                                                  from
                                                     Quran
               narratives  mentioned  in  this       understanding.  (Javan  Arasteh,
               regard  and  is  also  contrary  to   2018: 135)
               the  principle  of  the  necessity       For    this   reason,    this
               of the repetition of the Quran,       miracle     contradicts     any
               so  it  is  rejected;  (Ma'refat,     distortion;  because  distortion
               2002: 449) as many Shiite and         destroys  the  meanings  of  the

               Sunni  scholars  have  accepted       Quran     and    disrupts   the
               such a view on the text of the        miraculous aspect of eloquence
               Holy Quran. (Khoei, 2009: 123)        and rhetoric based on meanings
                                                     and  words;  therefore,  the
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