"It clears the mind and teaches the true way," he says. The faithful believe that the Qur'an is a record of what the Prophet Mohammed received from Allah. Mohammed was illiterate; the Qur'an was compiled by his successors based on what Mohammed told them, and completed after his death, in the seventh century CE.
回教徒相信，古蘭經是創教者穆罕默德先知受天啟而得，穆聖不識字，就在傳道時教導口述給弟子，由後代弟子整理成書，大致是在穆罕默德歸真後、於七世紀中業完成的。