Developing a Centralised Approach for authentication of Online Quran with Assistance of Muslim Scholars

Abstract

The Magnificent Qur’an, the Muslims’ sacred and the most authentic Book, was revealed in Arabic the most immense language all over the world. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) upon who this book was reveled in twenty three (23) years make complete arrangements for its authenticity by transferring Allah’s message to His Companions through reciting exact word by word preserving the accurate order. Nowadays with huge advancement in information technology (IT) the preferences are given to the new advance and smart devices for reading, reciting and memorizing the Quran instead of Printed copy of the Holy Quran that is considered more reliable and authentic. No doubt this advancement has make it easy to access the Quran anytime, anywhere for everyone but has open a real threat in the authenticity of digital Quran. In the past a lot of work has been done to define a proper mechanism for authenticity of digital Quran/online Quran, This paper is a step forward to the same process. It introduces the Centralised mechanism using blended approach of Digital signature and Zero-watermarking technique authentication of digital Quran. The skills to control the authenticity of digital Quran with the help of scholars can be challenging in the current situation. Now a days it is the big challenge for the users to identify the valid copy of digital (online) Quran .The Muslims everywhere in the world are facing deficiency of attentiveness in distribution of fake digital versions of Quran without acknowledgment of approved Muslims scholars. Muslims around the world individuals as well as groups have been putting huge effort to detect and eradicate illegal copies of Holy Quran. There should be one committee of Muslims scholars and IT experts which has both type of technological and Islamic knowledge about Quran. We therefore are going to propose digital Quran centralized authentication system by using latest authentication approach. The system is aimed to combining sophisticated knowledge of our outstanding Muslim scholars and extraordinary technological experts to provide the authentic, valid and error proof digital Quran to every Muslim.