Allah Swt Revealed the previous Scriptures

by Muhammad Rasheed (Socio-Political Commentator)

As Allah Swt explained in the selected verses listed below, the People of the Book received many prophets over millennia, but did not accept all of them in their arrogant audacity. It’s clear that the elitist disbelievers among them concocted their own criteria as to whether God’s message was true or not, and whether His messengers really had been anointed by their Creator. In great blasphemy they rejected/hid/twisted the revelations, persecuted, and even killed some of the messengers.

These hidden scriptures Allah Swt mentioned are peppered throughout the greater body of biblical literature, found in the collections of so-called Jewish ‘folk tales,’ the so-called Apocrypha of the Christians, and the like. When learned doctors of the Law would recognized such works in the Qur’an, they would of course be shocked — this being the source of the false accusations that Muhammad Pbuh had kidnapped a rogue rabbi who couldn’t keep his mouth shut, or studied such works himself proving he wasn’t really illiterate, etc. Verily, the truth was revealed by Allah, and the believer recognizes truth over falsehood. A great wrong they commit by playing loose & free with the Word of the Lord thy God, and harsh indeed will be His penalty should they not repent. Glory be to Allah, Lord of the worlds!

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3:187
And remember Allah took a covenant from the People of the Book, to make it
known and clear to mankind, and not to hide it; but they threw it away behind
their backs, and purchased with it some miserable gain! And vile was the bargain they made!

16:101
When We substitute one revelation for another – and Allah knows best what
He reveals in stages – they say, "Thou art but a forger," but most of them
understand not.

2:87-91
87. We gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of messengers; We gave Jesus the son of Mary Clear Signs and strengthened him with the holy spirit. Is it that whenever there comes to you a messenger with what ye yourselves desire not, ye are puffed up with pride?- Some ye called impostors, and others ye slay! 88. They say, "Our hearts are the wrappings which preserve Allah's Word: we need no more." Nay, Allah's curse is on them for their blasphemy: Little is it they believe. 89. And when there comes to them a Book from Allah, confirming what is with them,- although from of old they had prayed for victory against those without Faith,- when there comes to them that which they should have recognized, they refuse to believe in it but the curse of Allah is on those without Faith. 90. Miserable is the price for which they have sold their souls, in that they deny the revelation which Allah has sent down, in insolent envy that Allah of His Grace should send it to any of His servants He pleases: Thus have they drawn on themselves Wrath upon Wrath. And humiliating is the punishment of those who reject Faith. 91. When it is said to them, "Believe in what Allah Hath sent down, "they say, "We believe in what was sent down to us:" yet they reject all besides, even if it be Truth confirming what is with them. Say: "Why then have ye slain the prophets of Allah in times gone by, if ye did indeed believe?"

How the Graeco- Roman would understand this

Written by Ijaz Ahmad

On Qur'an 5:116 - The verse in part reads: "And [beware the Day] when Allah will say, "O Jesus, Son of Mary, did you say to the people, 'Take me and my mother as deities besides Allah ?'" He will say, "Exalted are You! It was not for me to say that to which I have no right." This verse is pretty stunning on multiple levels if you understand Graeco-Roman literary devices and early Christian heresiology. Allow me to explain. 1. This is the only place in the Qur'an where we have the construct "did you say" (a-anta qulta), it's a very strange question. Why is God asking 'Isa peace be upon him if he said this? Well, in Graeco-Roman literature, there is the concept of ipsissima verba and ipsissima vox. The very words, meaning the actual words used by a person and the very voice meaning the words attributed to a person even if they did not say them. Attributing a quote to someone who had not said it was not seen as a form of fabrication, because it was then believed that if you thought the person would have said it, then it's the same as them saying it. In essence, this is a rhetorical question on multiple levels that effectively demonstrates that no, this is a lie and this can't be said to be my words (verba) or even in my voice (vox) and that nothing to this effect was taught to the people by 'Isa (peace be upon him) himself. 2. The follow up to the initial answer is where we have an emphasis logically following from the above, that even if the possibility of ipsissima vox (very voice) was taken into consideration, 'Isa peace be upon him rejects that idea outright as he explicitly and emphatically denies having any right himself to such a claim, thus anyone implying he would say such a thing was being grossly dishonest. 3. Many uneducated Christian apologists take this verse as an example to mean that the author of the Qur'an thought that the Trinity contains Mary (may Allah be pleased with her), but this is due to a general ignorance of church history. The Eastern Church refers to Mary as theotokos, or the Mother of God. Today's many Christians will tell you that to use such a term for Mary is to impart divinity upon her and they point to John Calvin's quote where he says that not only is it wrong, but ignorant and superstitious! The Bible does not attest to such a title for her though in Luke 1:43 she is greeted as the mother of "my master". There is also the case of the sect of the Collyridians that indeed directly worshipped Mary. Conclusion: The Qur'an displays an in-depth understanding of the misguidance of the Christian faith and the arguments normally used to defend them at a sophisticated level.