"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..."
If the Sriptures were considered to be Truth when Muhammad received this revelation; if the Scriptures were guarded by Allah in safety; if any behavior or approach to life that did not conform to the Sriptures was considered by Allah to be a divergence from the Truth...why do Muslims believe the Scriptures have been corrupted? It is clear that the Scriptures as they are written today, are in accord with the Scriptures written three years before the Qu'ran. If these Scriptures are today what they were when first written; if Allah is guarding them in safety; if Allah considers these scriptures to be the truth, how can these Scriptures have been corrupted?
“The force of reason is capable of compelling the
other party to accept one's argument.” Shaykh Salman al-Oadah
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"But set apart the Messiah as Lord in your hearts, and always be ready to
give a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you."
1 Peter 3:15
I thought I'd interfere here and quote an answer to one of my questions to the IslamToday team:
Allah knows best the degree of corruption in the Bible.
However, in another hadîth, the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Whatever the People of the Book tell you, neither believe them nor deny what they say, but rather say: ‘I believe in Allah and His Messengers.’ For if it is something false, you will not be believing it, and if it is something true, you will not be denying it.” [Sunan Abî Dâwûd (3644) and Musnad Ahmad (16597)]
Al-Tabarî relates in his Tafsîr from Ibn `Abbâs the context in which this verse was revealed:
Râfi` b. Hârithah, Salâm b. Mishkum, Mâlik b. al-Sayf, and Râfi` b. Huraymilah approached Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) and said: “O Muhammad! Don’t you claim to be from the community and faith of Abraham and to believe in the Torah that we possess and witness that it is the truth from Allah?”
Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) replied: “Certainly. However you introduced to it new things and disputed what it contains of the covenant that was taken upon you. You concealed of it what you were supposed to convey to the people. I am innocent of the new things that you have contrived.”
They said: “Then we will keep to what our hands possess, for indeed, we are upon the truth. We do not believe in you and will not follow you.”
Thereupon, Allah revealed: “Say: ‘O People of the Scripture! You are upon nothing until you observe the Torah and the Gospel and that which was revealed to you from your Lord.’ That which is revealed unto you (O Muhammad) from your Lord is certain to increase the contumacy and disbelief of many of them. But grieve not for the disbelieving folk.” [Sûrah al-Mâ’idah: 68]
This is also related by Ibn Abî Hâtim in his Tafsîr.
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