Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands and then say,
This is from Allah, to purchase with it a little price! Woe to them for
what their hands have written and woe to them for that they earn thereby. (
Al-Baqarah : 79 ) .
In this context, the authority, Sheikh Ahmad Deedat asserts : some of
you said that the Prophet of Islam ordered us to respect the Bible, which is
true, but.. Which Bible? The book our Prophet ordered us to dignify is
the bible of Jesus. So, where is the Bible of Jesus? The present Bible, or
more accurately the present Bibles, is not one of them of Jesus!.. The
Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him, commanded us to revere
what Allahs revelation to Jesus, Not the bible of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or
John.
All
the Christians of the world cannot deny the incessant fact that tens of
thousands of them monthly abandon the belief of crucifixion and trinity to
adopt Islam instead, whereas no single Muslim gave up his creed to embrace
Christianity.
I
have personally went through hundreds of the stories of Christian men and
women who turned to Islam and confess how and why they have done so. All of
them consensually shared in their various stories on one opinion saying :
We used to go to the church for the Sunday prayer, though utterly
unconvinced of the unintelligible recitation the priest delivers, from the
bible. Moreover, they claim that Jesus is the son of God, and that God is
divided into three persons was never palatable to our minds and concepts. We
snubbed such beliefs as a whole. Besides, we were not allowed to forward any
question or inquiry to the bishops and priests about any of such ambiguous
concepts. Thus, if one of us was insolent enough with the minister of the
church
and dared to ask him
some of
these banned
questions, he would
never receive