Question: What
is the Guarded Tablet? What is the significance of this tablet
Answer: The
Guarded Tablet (Lawh-i-Mahfuz), as mentioned in the Qur’an (85:22),
is a tablet in which the Qur’an is safely written and lies in the
custody of the Almighty.
To understand the significance of
this, one must try to understand the reason for which it has found mention
in the Qur’an. The context of 85:22 is that the Qur’an is
not the work of some evil spirit, jinn or soothsayer, as its opponents
were alleging at that time. It is the work of God. No one is able to tamper
with its contents during the period of its revelation. It is well guarded
and well protected in a tablet placed in the supervision of the Almighty.
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