Why Did They Become Muslims

elongs to Moses. The commandment you criticize is the one which
Allâhu ta’âlâ gave the Mosaic people so that they should revenge for
their expulsion from Egypt. The Egyptians refused the time’s true
religion and even attempted to kill Moses (Mûsâ) ‘alaihis-salâm’.
Upon this Allâhu ta’âlâ commanded the Jews to revenge on them by
annihilating the so-called nations of disbelievers. That is the
meaning of this passage, which was added to the Holy Bible. It has
nothing to do with Christianity.” Upon this we said to him: “Every
religion has a holy book. Believers of a religion have to believe in its
holy book in its entirety. Where its passages were taken from, or
how they were organized, is not a matter of question. A holy book
is believed as a Book of Allah and the passages it contains as the
commandments of Allah. The holy book of Christians is the Holy
Bible, i.e. the Torah and the Bible. Therefore, you have to recognize
all the passages in the Holy Bible as the commandments of Allah.
You cannot divide your Holy Bible by categorizing its passages with
respect to their authenticities, for instance by stigmatizing one
passage as obsolete, another as concerning Jewry, and another as
Mosaic or non-Christian. You cannot believe in one part and reject
another. You have to believe in it as a whole. If this passage from the
Biblical book Deuteronomy has nothing to do with Christianity,
your ecumenical councils should have excised it from the Holy Bible
or at least announced all over the world that it was a superstition
inserted into the Bible afterwards. Since they did not do so, you
should be believing in this passage as a commandment of Allah.
Accordingly, you have to acknowledge that Christianity is an
extremely savage, cruel, ruthless and death-dealing religion.”
The Christian priest was consternated. Because he had never read
the Holy Bible completely, and had not even taken a look at the Old
Testament and therefore it was the first time that he had ever seen it,
he was agape with astonishment. Finally, he said to us, “You have
embarrassed not only me but the entire Christendom. I am not a
theologian, and I must confess that I am not very pious. I thought the
Holy Bible contained only compassion, mercy and forgiveness. This
terrible passage of savagery has had a disastrous effect on me. I am
ashamed also that I am a priest. When I go back home, I shall tell some
learned theologians about this. I shall apply to the authorities for the
excision of this passage from the Holy Bible. This passage is certainly
a superstition. For Allah would not give such a horrendous command.
This passage must be a Jewish fabrication.” We consoled him. We
gave him one of our publications in English, namely Islam and
Christianity. We said, “If you read this book you will see that the Holy
Bible contains many other errors. In fact, these errors are about
twenty thousand according to a report!” The previous section, ‘The
Qur’ân al-kerîm and Today’s Copies of the Torah and the Bible’,
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