Why Did They Become Muslims

England, and decide that these errors must definitely be put to
right! Who on earth would believe that that book is the ‘Word of
Allah’? The following is a humorous anecdote told by a person
who has held debates with Christian theologians and scientists on
the Christian tenets and the Bible and who has proved that they
were interpolated. That person relates as follows:
“An article that appeared on the September 8 th , 1957 issue of
the American periodical AWAKE read as follows: So there are as
many as fifty thousand errors in the Holy Bible! Recently, a young
man bought a copy of the King James Version of the Holy Bible.
He never expected that there would be mistakes in the Holy Bible
which he thought was the Word of Allah. A short time later he saw
an article with the heading ‘Facts About the Bible’ in the
periodical Look, which he had happened to buy. The article said
that a clerical commission appointed in 1133 [1720 C.E.] found
twenty thousand errors in the Bible that was prepared under the
command of King James. He was both surprised and extremely
sad. When he talked with his spiritual companions about this
matter, they said, to his great amazement, that the existing Bible
contained “fifty thousand errors, not twenty thousand.” He almost
swooned. Now he asks us: For God’s sake, tell me. Is the Holy
Bible which we look on as the Word of God really a book full of
mistakes?
“I read the magazine with attention and kept it. Six months
ago, one day I was sitting at home, when the door-bell rang. I
opened the door and saw a polite young man standing before me.
Smiling respectfully, he gave me a cordial greeting, and showed
me his I.D. card. It said ‘Jehovah’s Witness’ on his I.D. This
appellation was used by a missionary organization. In a dulcet
tone, the young missionary said, ‘First of all, we are trying to invite
you, and the other educated people who have deviated from the
right path, to Christianity, which is the right path. I have brought
you books containing some lovely passages from the Torah and
the Bible. Let me present them to you. Read them, think over
them, and make a decision.’ I invited him in and offered him some
coffee. He seemed sure that he had convinced me, at least
halfway. After coffee, I asked him, ‘My dear friend, you look on
the Torah and the Bible as the Word of Allah, don’t you?’
‘Definitely,’ was the answer. ‘Then, there are no errors in the
Torah and the Bible, are there?’ ‘Impossible,’ he said. Then I
showed him the magazine Awake, and said, ‘This magazine is
issued in America. It is written in this magazine that there are fifty
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