Why Did They Become Muslims

some people, some of them are narrations conveyed by some
historians, and others are events with unknown narrators. Let us
give an example: “And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he
came, if haply he might find anything thereon: and when he came
to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.”
(Mark: 11-13)
In this verse, a person conveys an incident in which someone
else is involved. The person who conveys the incident is not
known. Yet it is hinted that the person who goes near the fig tree
is Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’. However, Mark, who wrote these lines, had
never seen Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’. Another oddity here is that in the
following verse, i.e. the fourteenth verse, Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’
invokes a malediction on the fig tree so that it will never yield any
fruit. It is an inconceivable paradox. It is beyond a fig tree to give
fruit prematurely. It would have been contrary to reason, to
knowledge, to science and to the religious canon for a Prophet to
accurse a fig tree, which is only a helpless creature of Allâhu ta’âlâ,
because it would not give fruit prematurely.
In most parts of the existing copies of the Holy Bible, there are
quite a number of statements without a certain identity on the part
of the person who made them, but with all the necessary material
suggestive of the fact that they are man-made. It is therefore
impossible to accept them as the Word of Allah.
Now, let us put our hand on our heart and ponder: can a book
containing partly Words of Allah, partly a prophet’s utterances,
and mostly narratives conveyed by various people be accepted as
the ‘Word of Allah’? In fact, the sundry errors in their parts which
we have classified as man-made, the differring accounts given
about the same events, the incongruity of the scores and numbers
given, –which will be dealt with later in the text and the mistakes
will be pointed out–, add corroborative evidence to the plain fact
that today’s copies of the Torah and the Bible are human
fabrications.
Muslims’ Holy Book, the Qur’ân al-kerîm, declares, as is
purported in the eighty-second âyat-i-kerîma of the Nisâ Sûra,
“Will they still not think that the Qur’ân al-kerîm is the Word of
Allah and meditate over its meaning? [The Qur’ân al-kerîm is the
Word of Allah.] Were it not the case, it would definitely contain
inconsistencies.” How true it is! The inconsistencies in the Holy
Bible indicate that it is a human utterance. Furthermore, as we
shall enlarge on later, the copies of the Torah and the Bible have
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