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Why Belief in the Divine Scripture of Christianity

Necessitates Belief in the Divine Scripture of Islam

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We are often told by Christians that it’s insufficient to
establish the Qur'ān’s divine origin by merely saying it
couldn’t have originated from Prophet Muḥammad .

However, did you know early Christian scholarship

used the same methodology to establish the divine
origin of the Gospels?

Church Father John Chrysostom (d. 407 AD) In his

second Homily on the Gospel of John introduces the
author of the fourth Gospel in the following way:
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1. Coming from a barbarous land

2. Not occupying a high social status

3. Being poor

4. Being unlettered

5. Lacking worldly education

6. Not being taught in Greek philosophy

7. Uttering things about the unseen which no other

man knows

8. Convincing hearers

9. Producing a work which goes beyond the area of

knowledge he would have been familiar with via his
worldly profession

10. His message is believed by inhabitants of vast

lands and different regions of the world

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Most scholars today believe the Gospel of “John” is in

fact anonymous and does not go back to the same
person those later theologians purport it goes back to.

Prof. Lindars writes:

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Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī (d. 403 AH) writes:

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Christians who lived within the first centuries of Islam

unanimously attributed the Qur'ān back to Muḥammad
and not to any other anonymous author.

To name a few:
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Western academics believe the Qur'ān as it is today is

the best representation of what the historical
Muḥammad said and did in the environment he
emerged from.

Prof. Sean Anthony writes:

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1.

Surah 29:48 and Surah 16:103 which say:

The Prophet is also only reported to have gone on
two short trips his entire life prior to the revelation per
the Sīra [biographical] literature.

Once when he was a child and another when he was

an adult. So no opportunity to learn another language.

Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728 AH) writes:

Additionally, the Prophet instructed one of his
companions to learn Hebrew to start writing letters for
him which indicates that he himself did not know the
language and neither did any other companion.

Zayd b. Thābit Narrated:

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Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, Hippocrates, Homer,

Herodotus, Proverbs, Wisdom of Solomon, and Philo
of Alexandria’s works were all available in Greek.

On the other hand, pre-Islamic society only had oral

pagan folklore, public sermons, poetry about crude
topics, and chains of genealogy passed down from
father to son.

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Abū Hurayra Narrated:

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The Qur'ān has a lot of puns and word-plays which

require knowledge of specific verses from the Old
Testament in Hebrew.

One sophisticated example is Surah 2:93 which has

the Jews say the following:
Deuteronomy 5:27 on the other hand has the Jews
say:

Thus, the Qur'ān altered the translation of what the

Jews outwardly said in Hebrew to make it conform to
the disobedience they had actually intended in their
hearts and later had fallen into down the line.
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al-Qāḍī Abū Ya‘lā (d. 458 AH) writes:

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The Qur'ān prophesied the conversion of the Persians

to Islam.

Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728 AH) writes:

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Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728 AH) writes:

We bring a close to this thread with a quote from Ibn
Rushd (d. 595 AH):

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