Why Did They Become Muslims

It is written in the forty-fourth verse of the twenty-seventh
chapter of the Gospel of Matthew that the two thieves that were
crucified with Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ castigated him like the Jews.
(Matt: 27-44)
On the other hand it is written in the thirty-ninth and later
verses of the twenty-third chapter of the Gospel of Luke that “one
of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him,” but the
other one “rebuked” his companion by saying “Dost not thou fear
God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?”, and that Îsâ
‘alaihis-salâm’ said to him, “To day shalt thou be with me in
paradise.” (Luke: 23-39, 40, 43)
The textual differences are obvious.
According to Mark, as Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ stayed among the
dead after he had been taken down from the cross, he spoke with
his Apostles and then he was raised up to heaven. (Mark: 16-9 to
19) The same account is given in Luke. On the other hand,
according to the third verse of the first chapter of the Acts of the
Apostles, which, again, is ascribed to Luke, Hadrat Îsâ stayed
among the dead for forty days and then was taken up to heaven.
(Acts: 1-3 to 9)
And so the examples go on. As we have stated earlier, this
book would be too small for us to write them all. Abdullâh-i-
Terjumân, who used to be a priest named Turmeda formerly, and
whom we have mentioned in the introduction, gives a few
examples of the inconsistencies among the verses of each of the
Gospels:
“... and his [1] meal was locusts and wild honey.” (Matt: 3-4)
“For John came neither eating nor drinking, ...” (ibid: 11-18)
The former priest quotes another passage:
“Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up
the ghost.” “And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain
from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks
rent;” “And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints
which slept rose,” “And came out of the grave after his
resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto
many.” (ibid: 27-50, 51, 52, 53) After this quotation, the former
priest Anselmo Turmedo, who converted to Islam afterwards,
[1] John (Yahyâ ‘alaihis-salâm’)
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