Why Did They Become Muslims

contain passages surviving from the real Bible.
The degree of wrath which some wretched people bring down
from Allâhu ta’âlâ by trying to represent Îsâ (Jesus) ‘alaihis-salâm’
as the son of Allah, and by insolently changing the verses in the
Torah and the Bible to achieve this end, becomes manifest in the
eighty-eighth through ninety-third âyats of Maryam Sûra of the
Qur’ân al-kerîm, which purport:
“They [Jews and Christians] say: “(Allah who is) Rahmân
(Gracious) has begotten a son!” “Indeed ye have put forth a thing
(a lie) most monstrous!” “At it the skies are ready to burst, the
earth to split asunder, and the mountains to fall down in utter
ruin,” “That they should invoke a son for (Allâhu ta’âlâ) the Most
Gracious.” “For it is not consonant with the majesty of (Allâhu
ta’âlâ) the Most Gracious that He should beget a son.” “Not one
of the beings in the heavens and the earth but must come to
(Allâhu ta’âlâ) the Most Gracious as a slave.” (19-88 to 93) Allâhu
ta’âlâ declares as follows in the third âyat of the Ikhlâs Sûra of the
Qur’ân al-kerîm: “... He (Allah) begetteth not, nor is He begotten.
...” (112-3) The hundred and seventy-first âyat of the Nisâ Sûra
purports, “O People of the Book [Jews and Christians]! Commit
no excesses in your religion: nor say of Allâhu ta’âlâ aught but the
truth. [Do not slander Him by saying that Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ is the
son of Allah.] Îsâ (Jesus) the son of Mary was (no more than) an
apostle of Allâhu ta’âlâ, and His Word (Creation), which He
bestowed on Mary, and a Spirit proceeding from Him: [O
Christians.] so believe in Allâhu ta’âlâ and apostles. Say not
‘Trinity’, nor say that Allâhu ta’âlâ is the third god in the trinity:
desist; it will be better for you; Allâhu ta’âlâ is ONE Ma’bûd (One
Being who is worthy of being worshipped): Glory be to Him: (Far
exalted is He) above having a son. ...” (4-171)
In the tenth âyat of Baqara Sûra, Allâhu ta’âlâ describes those
people who interpolated the Bible as follows: “In their hearts is a
disease; and Allâhu ta’âlâ has increased their disease: and grievous
is the penalty they (incur), because they are false (to themselves).”
(2-10)
The seventy-ninth âyat of Baqara Sûra purports, “Woe to those
who write the Book with their own hands, and then say: ‘This is
from God.’ To traffic with it for a miserable price! – Woe to them
for what their hands do write, and for the gain they make thereby.”
(2-79)
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