Ha-ha, of course not.
Did Syria's Bashar Assad 'revise' the Quran?
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Damascus,Minister of Awqaf (Religious Endowments) Mohammad Abdul-Sattar al-Sayyed said the new standard version of Quran was not meant to be a new Quran rather a firsthand fully checked representation of the Holy Quran in accordance with the original copy made by the Venerable Caliph Uthman Ibn Affan, may Allah be pleased with him. However, this doesn’t mean that the former editions of the Holy Quran are incorrect or inappropriate. This work is a kind of improvement in the function of Qu’ranic script, locations of beginnings and ends of Qur’anic sentences, and standardization of the letters of Quranic words. The purpose is to produce a standardized edition for publishers and publishing centers to adopt with no alternation or change in the original Quranic script. This enables Muslims, irrespective of their educational backgrounds, to read the Qur’anic script with no difficulties resulting from the size, dotting or vowelization of letters."
Syrian TV - Endowments Minister: New standard version of Quran a fully checked representation of the Holy Book
The actual changes seem to be, "
: The committee has set certain regulations for the amendment, and the basis it has adopted is : (Application of the system adopted throughout the entire Mousshaf ) according to the following regulations: A-Concerning dots and letters: 1.Preventing overriding of letters, 2.Writing the middle (ha’) letters in the form of knots, 3.Placing dots right over their letters’ 4.The (Ta’) and (Ya’) dots are placed horizontally, not vertically, all over the Mousshaf. B-Concerning coding marks: 1.Placing the (Ha’) right over its proper location, 2.Placing the small (Alif) right over its proper location, 3.Placing the connected (ha’) small marks on, not under, the line, 4.placing vowelization marks right over their letters, and maintaining the same size and boldness for all of them, 5.placing vowelization marks right over, or right under, the dotted letters, 6.Amednment of the form of consecutive accusative case nunnations to avoid ambiguity, 7.placing prolongation marks right over their letters, 8.The vowelization marks for the (Ta’) and (Tha’) right before their letters, 9.Distinction between the round and square silence marks. C-complementaries adopted by the committee: 1.Not placing articles of negation, interdiction, or exception at the end of the line, 2.Not placing end-of-verse marks at the beginning of lines, 3.Not curving the top of (al-Alif al-Mamdoudah)."
I don't know of this is good or bad, since I have no idea what any of those means, but I doubt that means that Assad has written himself in the Quran!
