The Belief in the Scriptures
The Belief in the Scriptures
38. Allah sent down the Scriptures to His Apostles, and being words from
Allah, they were free from any imperfection or errors at the time of their
revelation. All of the scriptures preceeding the Qur'an have been tampered
with and distorted by their people(1), while the Qur'an is protected by Allah
from change and tampering(2). It will be kept as such, by means of Allah's
bounty, until He removes it from the earth(3).
1- "Do you (O believers) hope that they (the people of the book) will be true to
you when a party of them used to hear the words of Allah (their Book), then
they knowingly changed it after they had understood it."
2.75
2- "No doubt We have sent down the dhikr (i.e. Qur'an and Sunnah) and surely
We will guard it.
15.9
3- Anas narrated: Allah's Apostle said: "It is among the signs of the Last Hour
that knowledge would be taken away." This is explained in another hadeeth:
"Allah does not take away knowledge by snatching it from the people but He
takes it away by taklng away the scholars. . ." Muslim p.1404
39. The Qur'an which is revealed to Muhammad(Peace be on Him) is in truth
the words of Allah, not a created thing(4). Falsehood cannot be added to it nor
can a portion be removed from it. It is a miracle which stands on its own
merits, and the like of it in terms of speech, eloquence, meaning and laws
could not and never can be produced by any other than Allah(5).
4- Some deviated sects claim that the Qur'an which we read in Arabic contains
only the meaning of words of Allah rather than His words themselves.
5- "And if you are in doubt concerning that which We have sent down to our
slave (Muhammad(Peace be on Him)), then produce a Surah the like thereof
and call your witnesses beside Allah if you are truthful."
2.23
40. Allah has sent down the Qur'an to make manifest everything which He
considers to be for the good of the people in this world as well as in the
Hereafter, and there is no inconsistency in its verses. Allah approved its
recitation as a means of devotion, and considered the best of Muslims to be
the one who learns the Qur'an and teaches it(6).
6- cf. Bukhari. Narrated on the authority of Uthman bin Affan. Vol.VI p.502.