Islam and Christianity

ISLAM
The exalted Prophet selected by Allâhu ta’âlâ to spread this
new religion was Hadrat Muhammad (’alaihi ’s-salâtu wassalâm).
The section entitled Qur’ân al-kerîm and Bibles contains many
explanations about how Hadrat Muhammad grew up, how he was
given the first divine order, and how he began to spread Islam;
hence, there is no need to repeat them here. We shall only add
here facts not mentioned previously.
Islam is a true religion sent by Allâhu ta’âlâ and which Hadrat
Muhammad (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) began to preach to his
people forty-three years after his birth in 571 A.D. He conveyed
a purified form of Christianity and Judaism, which had become
corrupt and illogical due to the human interpolation in them. The
name of this religion is Islam. And, of course, all of this was
natural because as we have repeated again and again in this book,
the unitarian religion, which had been known since the time of
Adam (’alaihi ’-salâm), reached its final form with “Islam,” after
Judaism and Christianity. A careful study of the other prophets’
lives and the religions they preached, which are written in
Christians’ books, will reveal the fact that they, too, were
originally unitarian (Tawhîd) religions, which, in its turn, proves
that our argument that “trinity is an absurdity inserted into the
religion of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ by Jews and Romans” is the plain
truth.
The holy book of the Islamic religion is the Qur’ân al-kerîm.
The Qur’ân al-kerîm is definitely the word of Allahu ta’âlâ.
Whereas the other holy books were interpolated or changed in
the course of time with human words inserted into them, the
Qur’ân al-kerîm has remained in its original form since the time it
was revealed and no words, even one, have ever been changed.
The information concerning faith in Islam is the same as that in
the religions of other Prophets, that is, “Tawhîd.” On the other
hand, unfortunately, some myths and illogical scriptures were
inserted into the other religions.
Today, the Islamic religion is mentioned with approbation all
over the world. During the Middle Ages, however, scholars of
the Christian religion attacked Islam blindly by calling it
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