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Many muslim apologists will tell you that the Quran was preserved orally, and that if all holy books were destroyed, the Quran could still be written down due to it being memorized by every muslim person.However there is significant problems with those statements.Firstly, the Quran isn't the only such book like it, as the Vedas were also memorized orally.The Vedas were also memorized orally far longer than the Quran has, with it being it memorized like that for over a millennium.

Another issue is that most muslim apologists don't know what oral preservation is, you see most muslims learn the Quran by memorizing it from a book.In oral preservation the contents are passed by memory, so for example if your grandfather learned the Quran he would teach it to your father from his memory and your father would teach it you from his memory as well.This type of transmission is common in many societies, and is how the Vedas is preserved.However throughout the Islamic world, the Quran is memorized from a written text, and there is no passing of Quranic content via memory.

The statement that if all holy books were destroyed, only the Quran could still be written down, is also wrong.There are many people who have memorized the Bible and other religious texts and also memorizing the text doesnt ensure that you'll remember it forever.This is especially true for the Quran, as no muslims needs to recite the entire Quran for praying, only certain verses are required, so many muslims eventually forgetting most of the Quran anyway.