Why Did They Become Muslims

evealed to our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’, without
undergoing any diacritical alteration until today.
The facts that we have stated so far are not only Muslims’
opinions. In fact, Western scientists and theologians have
examined the Bible again and proved that it is not the genuine
‘Word of Allah’. We should not forget that today, when the
twenty-first century is so close and when the world’s knowledge
and science have improved so much so that even the least
cultivated nations have established universities, people cannot be
expected to close their eyes and take for granted a credal tenet
that you try to impose on them as something that you have heard
from your father or teacher and which you cannot explain to
yourself. Today’s young people delve into the inner nature and the
real causes of matters, and they reject things that they find
irrational. In Turkey, for instance, more than a million youngsters
take the university entrance examinations every year. There is no
doubt as to that these youngsters, who have been educated with
up-to-date methods, will pass the religious theories and ideas said
or taught to them through the sieve of reason and logic. As a
matter of fact, today’s Western theologians divulge the faults in
the copies of the Torah and the Bible that they have. In order to
refresh our Muslim brothers’ minds concerning the difference
between today’s Torah and Bible and the Qur’ân al-kerîm, we
have utilized those theologians’ publications. Another source we
have benefited from in the preparation of this chapter is Houser,
an American writer who wrote on religious subjects. Furthermore,
Anselmo Turmeda was a renowned Spanish priest. He accepted
the Islamic religion in 823 [1420 C.E.], and changed his name to
Abdullâh-i-Terjumân. We have studied that scholar’s book
Tuhfat-ul-erîb, which dealt with errors in the Bible, the book
Pearls of Bible, written by S.Merran Muhyiddîn Sâhib Ikbâl of
Pakistan, and also the Turkish book Diyâ-ul-qulûb, a work of
research on the Torah and the Bible written by Is-haq Efendi of
Harput (d. 1309 [1891 C.E.]), a great writer and a member of the
Ottoman Ministry of Education, and which was published in 1295
[1878 C.E.]. The last book was translated into English and
published by Hakîkat Kitabevî in Istanbul with the title Could Not
Answer. Furthermore, Shems-ul-haqîqa, a book of two hundred
and ninety pages written in Turkish, again, by Khwâja Is-haq and
printed in 1278 [1861 C.E.], which is registered at number 204 of
the Düğümlü Baba section of the public library of Süleymâniyye in
Istanbul, proves with sound documents that the Qur’ân al-kerîm is
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