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Originally Posted by Skybird
The Quran-as-is needs to be known and interpreted in historical sequence, which is difficult without help, because the Suras are not sorted in the sequence of their historic creation, but are wildly mixed in timeline, because it was decided to sort them by length.
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The Surahs (chapters) within the Quran are not sorted by length as you claim. I don’t know where this claim popped up from that the verses are sorted on length from longest to shortest chapters. For a start the very first surah within the Quran Surah Al-Fatiha (The Opening) contains only seven ayaat (verses). At the other end the last Surah of the Quran Al-Nas contains 6 verses. And finally for the record the shortest chapter within the Quran is Surah Al-Kawthar being at 3 verses long. So I'm afraid that this very simple statement of yours is quite simply false. Why do I know this. I've read it more times than I can count. Speaking of which must go now to read before catching a few hours of zzzzz's. 
Perhaps when I have time I may get a chance to look at that site (links) mentioned by Skybird and provide some form of rebuttal. Not easy however as time is limited with 16 hours of fasting during the day while also trying to run a business from 8am to 6pm. But let's see. Goodnight.
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