['Aalim Network QR] Believer in Tahreef of Quran

[Ummulbanin <workshop@popmail.dircon.co.uk>]

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Assalamu 'alaykum
The following question was answered by Mulla Asgher.

Salaams & Duas
Ummulbanin Merali - Moderator - 'Aalim Network
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QUESTION:

I understand that the Shia faith clearly accepts the Quran as complete
without additions or deletions.  What is the position of a Shia person who
believes that the Quran as we have it today is incomplete and that it used
to have a Sura Wilaya and other such additions.  Is this person, who
otherwise has proper Shia beliefs, considered a non-muslim or just a sinner?
If he is a scholar then are we allowed to refer to his books to gain knowledge?


ANSWER:

Any one who believes that there has been an addition, omission or
interpolation in the Qur'an is indeed misguided, and if he persists in that
belief, he commits a sin by dishonouring the word of Allah.

Scholars of both Sunni and Shia schools have written about the change
having occurred. They have been critically studied and their errors have
been made manifest. 

Asgharali M M Jaffer