What About Islam and the Qur

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What About Islam and the Quran?
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What About Islam and the Quran?

1. The Qurans dependence on the Bible

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• The Quran teaches
• Say ye We believe in God, and the revelation
  given to us, and to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac,
  Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses
  and Jesus, and that given to (all) Prophets from
  the Lord we make no difference between one and
  another of them and we bow to God (in Islam)
  (Sura 2.136).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• It claims it was sent by God
• ...Confirming what went before it and He sent
  down the Law (of Moses) and the Gospel (of Jesus)
  before this, as a guide to mankind, and He sent
  down the Criterion (of judgment between right and
  wrong) (Sura 3.3).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Inescapable conclusions
• If the Bible is from God, we must accept its
  claims or reject what God has revealed.
• If the Bible is from God, and it conflicts with
  another text, which claims to be from God, either
  the Bible is corrupt, or the text that claims to
  confirm it is corrupt, manmade, and invalid.
• If the Bible is corrupt, and another text claims
  to confirm it, the validity of the dependent text
  must itself be brought into question.

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• The Qurans dependence on the Bible
• The Quran versus modern Islamic apologists

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• The Quran
• Accepts the Jewish and Christian Scriptures as
  they existed at the time of Mohammad.
• Claims to confirm Jewish and Christian
  Scriptures, which came before it and yet,
• Rejects and denies certain clear teachings in the
  Bible.

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Modern Islamic Apologists
• Reject Jewish and Christian Scriptures as they
  exist now and during the time of Mohammad as
  corrupt and unreliable.
• Claim that the Quran confirms lost originals of
  the Jewish and Christian Scriptures no longer
  exist, and thus,
• Accept the Qurans teachings and reject the
  Bibles teachings where they differ with the
  Quran.

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• The Qurans dependence on the Bible
• The Quran versus modern Islamic apologists
• Muslim apologists teach that the Bible is corrupt.

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Are the Jewish and Christian scriptures without
  foundation? Can they be said to accurately
  reflect or preserve a message from the Supreme
  being to mortal man? When one reads the Bible
  today, what is really being read, Gods word or
  mens fables? Muslims believe in divine
  revelation, we believe in the Law which was given
  to Moses and in the Gospel which was given to
  Jesus, but can we find either the Law or the
  Gospel in todays Bible? I say we can find some
  of the Law and yes we can find some of the truth
  in the Bible (p. 25).

Dr. Salah El DareerPresident of the Islamic
Center in Birmingham
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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Commenting on the Arabic word Injil, translated
  Gospel in the Quran, wrote that it is not
  the New Testament. It is not the four Gospels
  now received as canonical. It is the single
  Gospel, which Islam teaches, was revealed to
  Jesus, and which he taught. Fragments of it
  survive in the received canonical Gospels and in
  some others, of which traces survive (e.g. the
  Gospel of Childhood or the Nativity, the Gospel
  of St. Barnabas, etc.) (p. 287).

Abdullah Yusuf AliMuslim Students Association
of the United States and Canada
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What About Islam and the Quran?

• The Qurans dependence on the Bible
• The Quran versus modern Islamic apologists
• Muslim apologists teach that the Bible is
  corrupt.
• The Quran teaches the validity of the Bible.

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• sadaqa
• To speak the truth, to prove to be true to
  approve, confirm, ratify (Madina, Maan Z.
  Arabic-English Dictionary. p. 370),
• To deem credible, accept sanction, certify,
  confirm, substantiate (Cowans, J. Milton. ed.
  Hans Wehr Arabic-English Dictionary. p. 594)
• To believe, to trust to endorse (Qafisheh,
  Hamdi A. NTCs Gulf Arabic-English Dictionary.
  p. 378).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Differences in Point of Fact
• NoahOne of Noahs Sons died in the flood - He is
  said to have separated himself (from the rest)
  (Sura 11.42b).Noah warns him, O my son!
  Embark with us, and be not with the unbelievers!
  (Sura 11.42c)

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Differences in Point of Fact
• NoahThe son refuses, and goes up on some
  mountain (Sura 11.43a). As Noah pleads, the
  waves came between them, and the son was among
  those overwhelmed in the Flood. (Sura 11.43c)

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• AbrahamAbraham tells Isaac he will offer him as
  a sacrifice - O my son! I see in a vision that
  I offer thee in sacrifice. (Sura 37.102)

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• JacobUnderstands Josephs dream - You shall be
  chosen by your Lord. He will teach you to
  interpret visions and will perfect His favor to
  you and to the house of Jacob... (Sura 12.6,
  Dawood)

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• JacobKnew Joseph was alive - Nay, but your
  minds have made up a tale (that may pass) with
  you! (Sura 12.18)

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• JosephPotiphar near the door - So they both
  raced each other to the door, and she tore his
  shirt from the back they both found her lord
  near the door... (Sura 12.25)

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• JosephPotiphar doesnt believe his wife - It
  is a snare of you woman! (Sura
  12.26-28)

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• JosephCupbearer tells Pharaoh -
  (Sura 28.27-29).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• MosesSaved by Pharaohs wife - The wife of
  Pharaoh said (Here is) a joy of the eye, for me
  and for thee slay him not... (Sura 28.9)

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• MosesReuel had only two daughters - And when he
  arrived at the watering (place) in Madyan, he
  found there a group of men watering (their
  flocks), and besides them he found two women who
  were keeping back (their flocks)... (Sura 28.23)

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• MosesTen years until he saw the burning bush -
  (Sura 28.27-29).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• AaronTried to discourage the peoples idolatry -
  Aaron had already, before this, said to them O
  my people! Ye are being tested in this for
  verily your Lord is (God) Most Gracious so
  follow me and obey my command. (Sura 20.9)

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• The IsraelitesWanted a king to fight in the
  cause of God - Appoint for us a King, that we
  may fight in the cause of God. (Sura 2.246)

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• ZachariasUnable to speak three days -
  (Zakariya) said O my Lord! Give me a sign.
  Thy sign, was the answer, Shall be that thou
  shalt speak to no man for three nights, although
  thou art not dumb. (Sura 19.10)

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• MaryGave birth by a palm-tree in a remote place
  - So she conceived him and she retired with him
  to a remote place. And the pains of childbirth
  drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree... (Sura
  19.22-23).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• JesusNot the Son of God - ...the Christians
  call Christ the Son of God. That is a saying from
  their mouth (in this) they imitate what the
  unbelievers of old used to say. God's curse be on
  them how they are deluded away from the truth!
  (Sura 9.30).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• JesusNot Crucified - ...they said (in boast),
  We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the
  Apostle of God but they killed him not, nor
  crucified him, but so it was made to appear to
  them... (Sura 4.157).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• Differences in Doctrine

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Doctrine
• Marriage, Divorce, RemarriageSo if a husband
  divorces his wife (irrevocably), he cannot after
  that, remarry her until after she has married
  another husband and he has divorced her... (Sura
  2.230).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Differences in Point of Fact
• Differences in Doctrine
• Claims about Jesus

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Claims about Jesus
• Jesus was Born of a VirginShe said, How shall
  I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me,
  and I am not unchaste? He said So (it will
  be) Thy Lord saith, that is easy for Me...
  (Sura 1920,21).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Claims about Jesus
• Jesus was given the Holy SpiritThen will God
  say O Jesus the son of Mary! Recount my favour
  to thee and to thy mother. Behold! I
  strengthened thee with the holy spirit... (Sura
  5113).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Claims about Jesus
• Jesus did miracles...And I heal those born
  blind, and the lepers, and I quicken the dead, by
  Gods leave... (Sura 349).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Claims about Jesus
• Jesus was righteousAnd Zakariya and John and
  Jesus and Elias all in the ranks of the
  righteous. (Sura 685).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Claims about Jesus
• Jesus was an Apostle of GodAnd remember, Jesus,
  the son of Mary, said O Children of Israel! I
  am the apostle of God (sent) to you confirming
  the Law (which came) before me... (Sura 616).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Claims about Jesus
• Jesus was a ProphetHe said I am indeed a
  servant of God He hath given me revelation and
  made me a prophet. (Sura 1930).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Claims about Jesus
• Jesus was the Word of God...Christ Jesus the
  son of Mary was (no more than) an apostle of God,
  and his Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a
  Spirit proceeding from Him... (Sura 4171).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Claims about Jesus
• Jesus was a sign to mankind... And (we wish) to
  appoint him as a sign unto men and a mercy from
  Us" It is a matter so decreed. (Sura 1921).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Claims about Jesus
• Jesus brought the gospelAnd in their footsteps
  We sent Jesus the son of Mary, confirming that
  had come before him We sent him the Gospel
  therein was guidance and light, and confirmation
  of the Law that had come before him a guidance
  and an admonition to those who fear God. (Sura
  549).

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What About Islam and the Quran?

• Contradictions between the Bible and the Quran
• Claims about Jesus
• Jesus was Christ (Messiah)Behold! the angels
  said O Mary! God giveth thee Glad tidings of a
  Word from Him His name will be called Christ
  Jesus ,the son of Mary, held in honour in this
  world and the Hereafter and of (the company of)
  those Nearest to God. (Sura 345).

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Concluding Thoughts

• Muslims tell us
• The Old Law Torah came by prophets, but they
  corrupted itits unreliable.
• The Gospel came by Jesus, but the apostles
  corrupted itits unreliable.
• The Quran came by Mohammed, written down 40
  years after his death unchangeable,
  not corruptedits reliable
• When the Quran and the Bible differ, the Quran
  is always right.
• WHO CAN BELIEVE IT????????????????