وَلَـقَدۡ كَتَبۡنَا فِى الزَّبُوۡرِ مِنۡۢ بَعۡدِ الذِّكۡرِ اَنَّ الۡاَرۡضَ يَرِثُهَا عِبَادِىَ الصّٰلِحُوۡنَ (Surah
21:105)
We have written in the Psalms, after the
Reminder, that the earth will be inherited by My righteous servants. (Surah
21:105)
يَأخُذُ الصّالِحُونَ الأرْضَ المَوعُودَةَ
وَإلَى الأبَدِ يَسكُنُونَها.(Psalm 37:29 ERV-AR)
الصِّدِّيقُونَ يَرِثُونَ خَيْرَاتِ الأَرْضِ وَيَسْكُنُونَ فِيهَا إِلَى الأَبَدِ.(Psalm 37:29 Nav)
The righteous shall inherit the land, and
dwell therein for ever. (Psalm 37:29)
צַדִּיקִ֥ים יִֽירְשׁוּ־אָ֑רֶץ וְיִשְׁכְּנ֖וּ לָעַ֣ד עָלֶֽיהָ׃
The righteous shall inherit the land, and
abide forever in it. (Psalm 37:29 Hebrew Bible)
الصِّدِّيقُونَ يَرِثُونَ الأَرْضَ وَيَسْكُنُونَهَا إِلَى الأَبَدِ.
مزامير (Psalm 37:29
Orthodox Coptic Arabic)
الصديقون يرثون الارض ويسكنونها الى الابد.(Psalm 37:29 Biblehub Arabic)
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Now that we have a few Arabic text from the
bible, let's make a comparison we see for ourselves if the words written in the
Quran was allegedly plagiarised from the book of psalm
To be honest without even making a comparison
we can easily dismantle their claim.
The verse at hand of the Quran clearly mentions Psalm الزَّبُوۡرِ. How then was the verse plagiarised
when the name of the book was mentioned? In order to qualify as plagiarism, one
must show that the author made no mention of the source.
1)
وَلَـقَدۡ كَتَبۡنَا فِى الزَّبُوۡرِ مِنۡۢ بَعۡدِ الذِّكۡرِ اَنَّ الۡاَرۡضَ يَرِثُهَا عِبَادِىَ الصّٰلِحُوۡنَ (Surah
21:105)
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الصِّدِّيقُونَ يَرِثُونَ الأَرْضَوَيَسْكُنُونَهَا إِلَى
الأَبَدِ. (Psalm 37:29 Van Dye)
Notice from the
Arabic bible the only word found in the Quran is Ard (لأَرْضَو) meaning earth with spelling variation.
Just one word? Note, earth is a common word which is used in the Quran many
times and the bible.
2)
وَلَـقَدۡ كَتَبۡنَا فِى الزَّبُوۡرِ مِنۡۢ بَعۡدِ الذِّكۡرِ اَنَّ الۡاَرۡضَ يَرِثُهَا عِبَادِىَ الصّٰلِحُوۡنَ (Surah
21:105)
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الصِّدِّيقُونَ يَرِثُونَ خَيْرَاتِ الأَرْضِ وَيَسْكُنُونَ فِيهَا إِلَى الأَبَدِ.(Psalm 37:29 Nav)
Again we read
from the Arabic bible the only word found in the Quran is Ard (لأَرْضَو) meaning earth with spelling variation.
Just one word? Note, earth is a common word which is used in the Quran many
times and the bible.
3)
وَلَـقَدۡ كَتَبۡنَا فِى الزَّبُوۡرِ مِنۡۢ بَعۡدِ الذِّكۡرِ اَنَّ الۡاَرۡضَ يَرِثُهَا عِبَادِىَ الصّٰلِحُوۡنَ (Surah
21:105)
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الصِّدِّيقُونَ يَرِثُونَ الأَرْضَ وَيَسْكُنُونَهَا إِلَى الأَبَدِ.
مزامير (Psalm 37:29
Orthodox Coptic Arabic)
Once again we
read from the Arabic bible the only word found in the Quran is Ard (لأَرْضَو) meaning earth with spelling variation.
Just one word? Note, earth is a common word which is used in the Quran many
times and the bible.
4)
وَلَـقَدۡ كَتَبۡنَا فِى الزَّبُوۡرِ مِنۡۢ بَعۡدِ الذِّكۡرِ اَنَّ الۡاَرۡضَ يَرِثُهَا عِبَادِىَ الصّٰلِحُوۡنَ (Surah
21:105)
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الصديقون يرثون الارض ويسكنونها الى الابد.(Psalm 37:29 Biblehub Arabic)
And again, we
read from the Arabic bible the only word found in the Quran is Ard (لأَرْضَو) meaning earth with spelling variation.
Just one word? Note, earth is a common word which is used in the Quran many
times and the bible.
5)
وَلَـقَدۡ كَتَبۡنَا فِى الزَّبُوۡرِ مِنۡۢ بَعۡدِ الذِّكۡرِ اَنَّ الۡاَرۡضَ يَرِثُهَا عِبَادِىَ الصّٰلِحُوۡنَ (Surah
21:105)
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الصَّالِحُونَ يَرِثُونَ الْأَرْضَ، وَيَسْكُنُونَ فِيهَا إِلَى الْأَبَدِ. (Psalm 37:29 Sharif Arabic Bible)
And again, we
read from the Arabic bible the only word found in the Quran is Ard (لأَرْضَو) meaning earth with spelling variation.
Just one word? Note, earth is a common word which is used in the Quran many
times and the bible.
We have made
five different Arabic versions in comparison with the words from the Quran and
we see only the word Ard (لأَرْضَو) meaning earth. Seriously and they call that plagiarism?
Even if we compare the English translation,
they don’t read the same.
We
have written in the Psalms, after the Reminder, that the earth will be
inherited by My righteous servants. (Surah 21:105)
The righteous shall inherit the land, and
abide forever in it. (Psalm 37:29 Hebrew Bible)
Notice the difference between the two is stupendous.
So, what do we understand from the verse of the Quran? Our scholars have
explained it for us clearly. Below is an explanation Ibn Kathir
Al-Anbiya - 21:105
English - Ibn Kathir
The Earth will be inherited by the Righteous
Allah tells us of His decree for His
righteous servants who are the blessed in this world and in the Hereafter,
those who will inherit the earth in this world and in the Hereafter.
As Allah says:
إِنَّ الَارْضَ للَّهِ يُورِثُهَا
مَن يَشَأءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ وَالْعَـقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ
Verily, the earth is Allah's. He gives it as
a heritage to whom He wills of His servants; and the (blessed) end is for those
who have Taqwa. (7:128)
إِنَّا لَنَنصُرُ رُسُلَنَا
وَالَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ فِى الْحَيَوةِ الدُّنْيَا وَيَوْمَ يَقُومُ الاٌّشْهَـدُ
Verily, We will indeed make victorious Our
Messengers and those who believe in this world's life and on the Day when the
witnesses will stand forth. (40:51)
وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ
ءامَنُواْ مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُواْ الصَّـلِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِى الاْرْضِ
كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ
الَّذِى ارْتَضَى لَهُمْ
Allah has promised those among you who
believe and do righteous good deeds, that He will certainly grant them
succession in the land, as He granted it to those before them, and that He will
grant them the authority to practice their religion which He has chosen for
them. (24:55)
Allah tells us that this is recorded in the
Books of Divine Laws and Decrees, and that it will inevitably come to pass.
Allah says:
وَلَقَدْ كَتَبْنَا فِي
الزَّبُورِ مِن بَعْدِ الذِّكْرِ
And indeed We have written in Az-Zabur after
Adh-Dhikr,
Al-A`mash said:"I asked Sa`id bin Jubayr
about the Ayah:
وَلَقَدْ كَتَبْنَا فِي
الزَّبُورِ مِن بَعْدِ الذِّكْرِ
(And
indeed We have written in Az-Zabur after Adh-Dhikr, He said:
`Az-Zabur means the Tawrah, the Injil and the
Qur'an."'
Mujahid said,
"Az-Zabur means the Book."
Ibn Abbas, Ash-Sha`bi, Al-Hasan, Qatadah and
others said,
"Az-Zabur is that which was revealed to
Dawud, and Adh-Dhikr is the Tawrah."
Mujahid said:
"Az-Zabur means the Books which came
after Adh-Dhikr, and Adh-Dhikr is the Mother of the Book (Umm Al-Kitab) which
is with Allah."
This was also the view of Zayd bin Aslam:
"It is the First Book."
Ath-Thawri said:
"It is Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuz."
أَنَّ الاَْرْضَ يَرِثُهَا
عِبَادِيَ الصَّالِحُونَ
that My righteous servants shall inherit the
land.
Mujahid said, narrating from Ibn Abbas,
"This means, the land of Paradise."
This was also the view of Abu Aliyah,
Mujahid, Sa`id bin Jubayr, Ash-Sha`bi, Qatadah, As-Suddi, Abu Salih, Ar-Rabi`
bin Anas and Ath-Thawri (may Allah have mercy on them).
إِنَّ فِي هَذَا لَبَلَغًا
لِّقَوْمٍ عَابِدِينَ
Further more we read from academic sources
the earliest text of the Arabic bible stems from as late as the 10th
century.
The earliest fragment of the Old Testament in
Arabic is a text of Psalm 77, found in the Umayyad Mosque. Initially it
was dated to the end of the 8th century by Bruno Violet (Violet, Bruno (1901). Ein zweisprachiges Psalmfragment aus
Damaskus. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 4.)
the scholar who discovered the fragments in
1901.(Geoffrey W. Bromiley (1 June 1995). The international standard
Bible encyclopedia. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 982.)
However recent research has paleographically
dated this manuscript to late 9th- and early 10th century due to new
discoveries of photographs. (Volandt, Ronny (2015). Arabic Versions of the Pentateuch: A
Comparative Study of Jewish, Christian & Muslim Sources. Brill.
p. 56. [...] Mavroudi
convincingly argued for the ninth- or early tenth-century.)
Conclusion.
It is clear
from the Quran the verse Christian are referring to from the book of Psalm was
not plagiarised as we demonstrated. The fact the Quran mentions Psalm shows
Christians have exposed themselves for using a strawman argument a baseless claim
which their own Arabic bible denies. Indeed very embarrassing for Christians.
