The Qur’an did not say that the Holy\nInjil was corrupted. Christians were not accused of distorting their Injil, and\nnot all of the Qur’anic texts that the critics rely upon to argue for the\ncorruption of the Injil pertain to it. We will discuss some of these texts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1 – “Do you covet [the hope, O\nbelievers], that they would believe for you while a party of them used to hear\nthe words of Allah and then distort the words after they had understood it\nwhile they were knowing?” (Al-Baqarah 2:75).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2 – “Among the Jews are those who\ndistort words from their [proper] usages and say, ‘We hear and disobey’ and ‘Hear\nbut be not heard’ and ‘Ra’ina,’ twisting their tongues and defaming the\nreligion. And if they had said [instead], ‘We hear and obey’ and ‘Wait for us,’\nit would have been better for them and more suitable. But Allah has cursed them\nfor their disbelief, so they believe not, except for a few” (Al-Nisa 4:46).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3 – “And Allah had already taken a covenant from the Children of Israel… So for their breaking of the covenant We cursed them and made their hearts hard. They distort words from their usages and have forgotten a portion of that of which they were reminded…” (Al-Maida 5:12-13). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
4 – “O Messenger, let them not\ngrieve you who hasten into disbelief of those who say, ‘We believe’ with their\nmouths, but their hearts believe not, and from among the Jews. [They are] avid\nlisteners to falsehood, listening to another people who have not come to you.\nThey distort words beyond their usages, saying ‘If you are given this, take it;\nbut if you are not given it, then beware.’ But he for whom Allah intends fitnah\n– never will you possess [power to do] for him a thing against Allah. Those are\nthe ones for whom Allah does not intend to purify their hearts. For them in\nthis world is disgrace, and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment” (Al-Maida\n5:41).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are some of the comments on\nthese verses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These texts are directed to the\nJews. Therefore, the Qur’an says: “and from among the Jews,” so there is no\nmention of the Christians or the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi says in his\ncommentary on Al-Maida 5:13, “The intention of corruption is to cast false\nresemblance and corrupt interpretations, and to divert the word from its true\nmeaning to a meaning that is false by using verbal tricks, as the people of\ninnovations today do to the verses that do not fit with their beliefs\u2013this is\nthe explanation of corruption.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al-Baydawi said in an explanation on\n(al-Ma’ida 5:41), “They sent them (from Zinya) from a group to Bani Qurethah,\nto ask the Messenger of Allah, and Ibn Suria judged between them. So, he told\nhim, ‘I ask you by the name of Allah… who handed down this book to you with its\nteachings of what is lawful and unlawful, do you find in it stoning of the\nimmune?’ He said ‘Yes,’ and they jumped on him, and he said, ‘I was afraid that\nif I make him out to be a liar, that will bring down the torment.’ Therefore,\nthe Messenger of Allah ordered the adulterers to be stoned at the door of the\nmosque.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al-Tabari dijo en su comentario (Al-Nisa 4: 45): \u201cLos jud\u00edos insultaron a Muhammad con las palabras m\u00e1s feas y le dijeron: 'Escuchen de nosotros la sordera' como alguien que le dice al hombre:\u201d Que Dios no le permita Escuche. \u2018La palabra Ra'ina fue interpretada por la atribuci\u00f3n de Ibn Wahab como lo que es incorrecto hablar.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yusuf Durra Al-Haddad comments on\nthese texts, saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1- “First we see that there is no\nmention of the Christians and the Gospel at all. We challenge anyone to prove\nin the Qur’an that it was intended for the Christians and their Gospel. How do\nthey accuse the Qur’an by accusing the Christians of distorting the Bible? Or\nhow do they call the Bible corrupted?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2 \u2013 “In all places, the Qur’an was\nreferring to a group of Jews, and it is mentioned that the other team do not\napprove them in their work; there is no room for corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3 \u2013 “The corruption that is\nmentioned is the interpretation of the text, not the alteration, as evidenced\nby the fact that they are a group of ‘he Scripture follow it, as it ought to be\nfollowed’ (Al-Baqarah 2:121). There is no fear of the corruption of the text\nnor its correct interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4 \u2013 “It is not the whole book that\nis dealt with, nor the whole Torah, or all of its regulations, but the meaning\nof the stoning in the Torah, and some commentators add the attribute of\nMuhammad, ‘the Unlettered Prophet, whom they find mentioned in the Torah and\nthe Gospel in their possession’ (Al-Aaraf 7:157). The whole idea is only about\none or two verses of the Torah.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The question that arises is how the\nQur’an attests to a distorted book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1 – “He has sent down upon you, [O\nMuhammad], the Book in truth, confirming what was before it. And He revealed\nthe Torah and the Gospel” (Al-Imran 3: 3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2 – “And We sent, following in their\nfootsteps, Jesus, the son of Mary, confirming that which came before him in the\nTorah; and We gave him the Gospel, in which was guidance and light and\nconfirming that which preceded it of the Torah as guidance and instruction for\nthe righteous” (Al-Maida 5:46).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3 – “And let the People of the\nGospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. And whoever does not judge by\nwhat Allah has revealed – then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient” (Al-Maida\n5:47).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4 – “And if only they upheld [the\nlaw of] the Torah, the Gospel, and what has been revealed to them from their\nLord, they would have consumed [provision] from above them and from beneath\ntheir feet. Among them are a moderate community, but many of them – evil is\nthat which they do” (Al-Maida 5:66).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5 – “Say, O People of the Scripture, you are [standing] on nothing until\nyou uphold [the law of] the Torah, the Gospel, and what has been revealed to\nyou from your Lord” (Al-Maida 5:68).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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