Why Did They Become Muslims

Bible is the Word of Allah.” Our response to this bigotry would be
to quote the eighteenth âyat-i-kerîma of Baqara Sûra, which
purports, “[They are] deaf, [so that they will not hear or accept the
truth], dumb, [so that they will not tell the truth], and blind, [so
that they will not see the right way]. They will not return to the
right path.” The thirteenth verse of the thirteenth chapter of the
Gospel of Matthew reads as follows: “Therefore speak I unto them
in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not,
neither do they understand.”
Now let us come back to our examination of the Bible:
First of all, let us say that today’s Christians do not all posses
the same version of the Bible. If you tell a Catholic that you
would like to talk with him on the Bible, he will ask you, “Which
version of the Bible?” For various Catholic, Protestant and
Orthodox Christians read varying versions of the Bible. When
you ask them, “How can there be various versions of the Bible
which is the Word of Allah,” they will fumble for an answer and
then prevaricate, “In actual fact, there is only one Bible. They
may have varying interpetations, though.” A retrospection into
history will show that the first Roman Catholic Text of the Bible,
the Latin version of the Bible translated by Jerome and called
Vulgate, appeared in Reims in 990 [1582 C.E.], [1]
and was
reprinted in Douay in 1609. It exists today under the name
Roman Catholic Version (RCV). Yet the Bible possessed by the
British today is very much different from that former version. For
the Bible was subjected to numerous alterations since 1600 up to
our day and some parts, which are termed ‘apocrypha’ [2] =
(writings or statements of doubtful authorship or authenticity),
were excised from the Bible, while some other parts, e.g. Judith,
Tobias, (or Tobit), Baruch, and Esther, were abrogated
irrevocably. Finally, it was published as the most recent and truest
Bible under the label Authorized Version. However, because its
language was found extremely coarse by a number of people who
had a say in the various branches of knowledge, including
[1] According to some encyclopedic dictionaries in English, the Latin
translation was completed in 383 C.E.
[2] The ori gi nal me aning of Apocryp ha, which in Gre ek me ans ‘sec ret,
hidden’, is ‘Fourteen books included in Vulgate, and the Septuagint,
which is the Gre ek trans la ti on of the Old Tes tament com piled before
Christianity.
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