CHAPTER 3: SECTION ONE: THE THIRD CLAIM OF THE CHRISTIANS
They say: He, the Almighty also says,
which means, “So if you (O Muhammad) are in doubt concerning that which We have revealed unto you, (i.e. that your name is written in the Tawrah (Torah) and the InjiI (Gospel)] then ask those who were reading the Book [the Tawrah (Torah) and the InjTI (Gospel)) before you. Verily, the truth has come to you from your Lord. So be not of those who doubt (it).” (Yunus, 10: 94)
They claim that it proves the authenticity of their Book and vindicates their Bible and the other Books that they have, proving that they were not changed because it (the Qur’an) believes in them.
The narrator says to those who make such a claim: Someone may say that the changes that have been made to the Bible could have occurred afterwards. They reply: We wonder at those people who, in spite of their knowledge and intelligence, make such an allegation against us. For if we say the same about them; that the book they have at present has been changed and that they have written whatever they wanted with their own hands, will they allow us to say so? He says to them: This is impermissible and no one can ever say it; the Qur’an can never be changed, not even a single letter.
They say: Glorified be Allah! If their book is written in only one language and a single Setter in it can never be changed, how can we change our books which were written in seventy-two languages, and every language has thousands of copies? Our books existed six hundred years before the coming of Muhammad and were read by people in spite of the differences in language and the huge distances between countries.
So who was that person who knew seventy-two languages and had power over the whole world and over all its priests and rulers to control our books in all those countries so that he could change it?
And if he had managed to change some of them and leave some, this can never be possible because they all sound the same and use the same terminology in all the languages. Therefore, no one can say or verify this accusation.
By: Sheikhul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyah
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