In this recording I am speaking to Naz at Speakers Corner, about some Arabic Qurans that I has acquired. Most people would think that I was wasting my money buying these Qurans, but the main value that they have for me, is that they show how the Muslim scholars are making up how these different Quran readings came about. Naz was also kind of repeating the same things that Muslim scholars are saying, which is that the different readings are related to the different ahrufs that were mentioned by their prophet in a hadith. One of the hadiths has Muhammad saying that the different recitations are related to dialects, as you can see below:
..........He (the Holy Prophet) said to me: Ubayy. a message was sent to me to recite the Qur'an in one dialect, and I replied: Make (things) easy for my people. It was conveyed to me for the second time that it should be recited in two dialects. I again replied to him: Make affairs easy for my people. It was again conveyed to me for the third time to recite in seven dialects And (I was further told): You have got a seeking for every reply that I sent you, which you should seek from Me. I said: O Allah! forgive my people, forgive my people, and I have deferred the third one for the day on which the entire creation will turn to me, including even Ibrahim (peace be upon him) (for intercession).
Reference : Sahih Muslim 820a
In-book reference : Book 6, Hadith 332
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 4, Hadith 1787
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The dots are at the beginning, because this is just the end part of a long hadith. You can read the whole of the hadith by looking it up at sunnah.com.
When looking at the Arabic Qurans that I have, it is obvious that they are written in the same dialect, with just the odd word changed here or there, so the Islamic scholars are just making up excuses about where the different readings came from.