Why are you a Muslim? (Part 1: The book Challenge)

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Jul 28, 2017 · 5 min read

“Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” (John 5:39)

Islam is the religion of peace and Jihad means inner struggle; sure let’s agree with that. Islam regards women as equal; I will give you that. The Quran is full of numerous miracles; okay, I am going to accept your interpretation. Islam is the fastest going religion; cool, I will you use the stats that float your boat. Mohammed is the seal of prophets; okay wait hold on, what prophets?

Prophet Mohammed is the seal of the prophets based on what? Just to get one thing clear, Mohammed is not anywhere in the Holy Bible, neither the Jewish nor the Christian scriptures. First off, any Christian will disagree that any acclaimed Mohammadian prophecy actually relates to Mohammed (they are actually Messianic prophecies, prophesying the coming of the Messiah, Christ, or a very bad misinterpretation). Just like Sunnah and authentic tafaseers (explanations) of the Quran, Christians (and Jews when it comes to their books) do take the verses in context and relate to the explanations of the early church fathers who have rightly understood and kept the faith.

In addition, as a Muslim, you have been probably been taught that the Holy Bible (explicitly Injeel and Torah) are corrupted. How can you then use this man-corrupted book to prove the advent of the divinely inspired Mohamed? Assuming it still holds some truth in it, how can you know what is truth and what is made up? you cannot just select the verses based on your desires; you’re trying to prove your religion, you got to have a systematic way in doing that. Moreover, if it is the Christians, along with the Jews, who have corrupted the Bible to suit their new pagan imperial beliefs, why haven’t they removed such clear prophecies about Islam (along with hard commandments, and stuff that makes Jews look bad)? In conclusion, by no reasonable mean, you can prove that Mohamed or Islam, in general, is mentioned or prophesied about anywhere in the Bible. Anything like that is just a desperate illogical claim to relate Islam to the religion of the God of Abraham.

One may argue that claiming the belief in the God of Abraham and acknowledging previous religions (while being corrupted) is a proof of its validity. Does that make you a Baha’i? A Baha’i is someone who claims that the Quran is no longer the valid authoritative scripture and that Baha’ullah, their last seal of prophets, came to give us the new commandments instead of Islam. If you will refute it, you are refuting yourself because this is the exact claim of Islam as an Abrahamic religion. Islam claims that Mohamed, the seal of prophets, came to correct the previous religions. If you claim that Baha’is are wrong because Quran says it is the final message and Mohamed is the seal of prophets, so does the Bible being the final testimony of God is His New Testament, and the Christ is the Messiah whom people are waiting for and for no one afterward. Also, you can’t really prove the Quran by quoting the Quran. In reality, I can create my own religion now, claiming the belief in the One God of Abraham, acknowledging and claiming Mohamed has prophesied about me, but the Quran was corrupted so you cannot really find those prophecies about me anymore. If you think I stand on no ground and make no point, then you should think again about the prophecy you regard as divine, cause Mohamed, Baha’ullah and I use the exact same arguments; why are you believing one and not the others. (Someone actually understood this cycle and got into it, his name is Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism)

To be honest, though, there are some prophecies about Mohammed in the Bible, but not the kind that will make you happy. Besides that most of them warn of an antichrist because he teaches a message different from the Gospels (No, most of the Christian and Islamic teachings are incompatible, neither do they derive from the same source nor share a common message), this is the closest prophecy, which is personally my favorite:

“For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand. “Therefore if they say to you, ‘Look, He is in the desert!’ do not go out; or ‘Look, He is in the inner rooms!’ do not believe it.” (Matthew 24:24–26).

Notice the use of “Prophets” (Mohammed claimed prophecy), “signs and wonders” (the acclaimed scientific miracles in the Quran, pretty much all of them have been debunked and are no longer used are arguments, will get to that later), and “Desert” (accurate geographical description of the Arabian peninsula, just a barren desert). Now you’re thinking that Jesus never said that and it’s caused by the corruption of the Bible; so please, do not use that corrupted book to defend your argument.

man vs GOD

Please, consider that claim one more time. First of all, claiming that some humans, dirt, and ashes, could change the word of Allah, contesting him and distorting his truth could mean one of the 2 things: either God isn’t almighty and people managed to distort his word, the word by which he created all things: “then said unto him: “Be” and he is.” (Al-Imran 59). Or that Allah doesn’t really care about his creatures and was fine waiting for 600 years to reveal the truth again. If the Bible was truly corrupted, where is the alleged original true copy based on which you make that claim? Where is that lost Injeel and Torah? Where is the book required correction? Let me answer that for you: They do NOT exist. Even Quran declares the Bible to be a true revelation of God and demands faith in the Bible (Sura 2:40–42,126,136,285; 3:3,71,93; 4:47,136; 5:47–51, 69,71–72; 6:91; 10:37,94; 21:7; 29:45,46; 35:31; 46:11). The Quran claims that no one changes the word of God (Sura 6:34; 10:34). Putting the Quran aside, even non-Christians and atheists cannot claim that the Bible is corrupted. There exist thousands of extremely old manuscripts that match the book we have in our hands right now. A quick google search will return for you that if all bibles are lost, you can accurately reconstruct it entirely from the manuscripts. Moreover, if all manuscripts are lost too, you can reconstruct almost all of it from the writings of the early church fathers who have extensively quoted it.


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