MISCONCEPTION ABOUT A VERSE IN THE QUR'AN BY THOSE WHO CLAIM TO BE CHRISTIANS.
BismilLaahir Rahmaanir Raheem.

Allah says in the Qur'an;
"If you are in doubts concerning what Allaah revealed (The QUR'AN), ask those who have been reading the book before you..."Qur'an 10:94.
According to the understanding of those who claims to be Christians​, Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam was in doubts about the Qur'an that has been revealed to him so Allah was recommending him to read the Bible for clarification or ask Bible scholars.

The first thing we have to know is that, Qur'an never mention Bible. The word Bible is not mentioned even in the Bible. It was not mentioned in the Qur'an either. The mistake some Muslim scholars make is that, when Qur'an mentions injil or Torah, they translate it as Bible. That's a terrible translation. They've mutilated the verse AstaghfirulLah. First of all, let's summarises what's the Bible.

The word Bible originated from the Greek word BIBLIA/BILIOUS which means collection of books or the books. In AD325, there was a council in of necea organized by Constantine, the first Roman Emperor to accept Christianity. He combined all the Churches in his empire under one umbrella and were called the Catholic which means universal. Today, the Catholic Church is the oldest existing Church in the Christian world. Constantine also selected Bishops to compile all the Brooks that are used by the Church. They decided which books should be added and which ones should be rejected. They rejected certain books which they called it Apocrypha. Apocrypha means not inspired to be in the word of God. They finally had 73 books as inspired by God. 46 in the old testament and 27 new testament books. Martin Luther and some few people protested against the authenticity of some 7 books which were added to the Bible because they were not translated into Greek. The Bible was later reduced from 73 to 66. The 66 books of the Bible is called the Protestant Bible. It was fully translated into English in 1611 by king James. It was known as the authorized version. Authorized by king James not God Almighty. The 73 Books of the Bible was translated as the Douay version also called the Roman Catholic version. It still exist within the Catholic Church. After the compilation, they later agreed on a suitable name to be given to the book. They called it the Bible. They choose this name because the Bible consist of different books from different authors. It is accepted by all Christians that 40 different authors wrote the Bible. This is why it is called a collection of books, ie. different books.

All these efforts to compile the Bible was done by the Romans to preserve the doctrine used by the Jews and the Christian Church. The compilation was not done by prophets of God or their companions like we have in hadith but by common men like me and you. It wasn't audited by God but by Constantine, Martin Luther and other Bishops. Paul was not a prophet but he has a lot of his books recorded in the Bible.

The Bible therefore consist of words of God and words of men. Example of the word of God in the Bible is the 10 commandments in Exodus 20:1-10. Example of the words of men consist of all the letters of Paul which were added into the Bible and other people who were not prophet but their words are recorded in the Bible. There are also a lot of contradictions in the Bible which include Genesis 6:5 "God repented for making man and it pain him in his heart" AstaghfirulLah, and numbers 19:23 "God is not a man to repent or the son of man to lie". The Bible also consist of a lot of incest which include the incest of Judah who had sex with his daughter-in-law, Genesis chapter 38. It also consist of sexy words which are not advisable for children to read like Ezekiel chapter 23 and songs of songs 1:2 which says "and kiss me with the kisses of your mouth, for your love is sweeter than wine.

All these can not be called the words of God even though they are found in the Bible. And this is some of the reason why Muslims don't believe in the total authenticity of the Bible.

The Bible today has gone through series of editions and versions. There are about 100 versions of the Bible today. Each version is different from the other. As for the original version of the Bible, no one knows where is it.

The injil and Torah according to the Qur'an is not the Bible but the original words which were coming out from the mouth of Moses and Jesus. If someone is able to produce the original words of Jesus and Moses, we'll believe in it as the Qur'an wants us to believe in the words of the prophets of Israel.

Now the topic is, was Muhammad in doubt of the Qur'an? The answer is NO! What is your proof?
My proof to my fellow Christians is in Qur'an 2:285 which says "the messenger (Muhammad) believed what was revealed to him from his Lord...".
This means the verse in Qur'an 10:94 was not directly referring to Muhammad but to those who doubt that Muhammad's name was written in their book. The Qur'an was therefore recommending them to ask those who have been reading the original books of Jesus and Moses before them. Allah was informing the Prophet to tell those who doubt about the revelation to him that they can refer to their books about the prophesies of Muhammed sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the Qur'an which they've tried and removed, twisted etc from their books. It also refer to those who have been studying the Qur'an meaning if anyone doubt about the Qur'an can ask those who have been reading or studying it. Alhamdulillah.

May Allah help Christians to understand and aid us in understanding our deen. Aameen.

Aameen JazaakaLlaahu Khayran

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