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CONGRUITIES AND INCONGRUITIES BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN |
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« To thee We sent the Scripture in truth, confirming the scripture that came before it, and guarding it in safety: so judge between them by what Allah hath revealed, and follow not their vain desires, diverging from the Truth that hath come to thee. To each among you have we prescribed a law and an open way. If Allah had so willed, He would have made you a single people, but (His plan is) to test you in what He hath given you: so strive as in a race in all virtues. The goal of you all is to Allah. it is He that will show you the truth of the matters in which ye dispute; »(Surah 5/48)
The Gospel was revealed to Jesus. The scholars agree on the fact that during the period of the Nazarenes there was no discrepancy between the Qur'an and the law in the Gospel. They confirm that there were many gospels written after Jesus, but the one written by the Nazarenes was the true gospel. This gospel had been mislaid afterwards. The Romish Church picked up afterwards the 4 gospels we have in hand today. Even these gospels had conflicting points in them and included later additions. Thus, Christianity had been transformed into a religion quite other than had been preached by Christ.
On the other hand, the Old Testament also had been inspired to the Israelites, by God. The Torah was kept in the chest, containing the Ark of the Covenant which was placed in the Congregation Tent for about 500 years and 400 years in Solomon's Temple in 422 BC. The Babylonian Empire destroyed the Temple, along with it, the Ark of the Covenant. The writing of the Old Testament was undertaken by Ezra and the Jewish wise men. Its penning by human hand had of course spoiled its original contents although the fundamentals were preserved.
The Qur'an had been given the duty to confirm and perpetuate the books that had been revealed before it. While it confirms the true and unsullied verse of those books, it indicates to the alterations that have been brought to them. The criterion in discriminating between the genuine and the fake was the Qur'an. Those that are congruous with the contents of the Qur'an are indeed the word of God, the rest are later additions.
God gave the divine law in three separate books. Had he so wanted, He could have produced one single law and make of the human beings a single community. He preferred to make them different and gave them different laws, showing each what displeased and what pleased Him. So we must vie with each other in good deeds and refrain from committing sins. We shall all return to God and learn the fundamental truth on whıich we differ.
The Qur'an's Universal Call
We believe in the revelation which has come down to us and in that which came down to you; Our Allah and your Allah is one; and it is to Him we bow (in Islam)." (29/46)Say: "O People of the Book! come to common terms as between us and you: That we worship none but Allah. that we associate no partners with him; that we erect not, from among ourselves, Lords and patrons other than Allah." If then they turn back, say ye: "Bear witness that we (at least) are Muslims (bowing to Allah's Will). (Surah 3/64)
The Qur'an has made the widest universal call in the history of religions. O you, the Jews, the Christians, and the Muslims, let us serve only God, the Only One, our common God. Let us not serve each other rather than He. Let us not abide by words other than dictated to us by God. Let us not stray from the true path. We, believers, are His servants and obey only Him.
Let us come together for a peaceful world and let us become one.
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