Bible Compared to Quran

Based on transcripts of vairous lectures given by Yusuf Estes & Dr. Gary Miller

Introduction by Yusuf Estes It should be stated at the outset of this wor ! that Musli"s do not see to put down or desecrete the #oly Bible. It is a "atter critical "atter of faith for Musli"s to believe in the original revelations that ca"e down to Moses! David! $olo"on and %esus! &ust as it is is i"portant for Musli"s to believe in the revelation of the 'uran that ca"e to Muha""ad! peace be upon hi". (he ey word here however! is )original.) *s we all now the origin of the Bible is clouded with centuries of copying! translating and passing down infor"ation! now long lost with only copies of "anuscripts re"aining to re"ind us of what once was the Bible. *dditionally! it should be noted that Musli"s do not see to destroy the +hristians or %ews belief in the ,ord of God! rather it is an obligation for Musli"s to call to what is right and to halt that which is evil. +ertainly! causing the )-eople of the Boo ) .as the 'uran refers to +hristians and %ews/ to fall into disbelief and leave off any faith in God at all! is the very opposite of the direction Musli"s should ta e in presenting any co"parison between Isla" and what has co"e down in the past fro" the *l"ighty God. ,e only see to bring about "ore light to the people see ing guidance and pray for all of us to be successful with our 0ord in this life and in the 1e2t life and we as #is Guidance and $upport in doing so! a"een.

THE BIBLE
[Yusuf Estes]

Old Testament There exists today a number of different versions in the ancient Hebrew language of the Jewish Book called the Torah [Law] and this is usually referred to in Christianity as The ld Testament! "aturally# there have been many different translations to a great number of languages over the centuries and one could not ex$ect them to be identical in text or meaning! %hat we have in &nglish today still remains somewhat similar to large amounts of these older documents! New Testament There are also different versions of the 'os$el or what is commonly called The "ew Testament in the (oine 'reek language and Latin and these also have many translations to even other langugaes! &ven amongst the &nglish translations there are great differences! To mention two very clear differences for exam$le) the Catholic Bible [c! *+, -!.] contains /* books in total# while the 0rotestant Bible contains only 11 books# and although the newer 20rotestant version3 was taken from the Catholic Bible even then these books do not match com$letely with each other! There is no common denominator for any of the many different versions of the Bible!

Dead Sea Scrolls There have been a number of scrolls and $archments found in $laces surrounding what we call the 4Holy Land4 over the centuries# not the least of which are those often referred to as the 4.ead 5ea 5crolls4 or as they are known to the scholars 4%adi 6umran 5crolls!4 These were discovered in the last century around 78*9 and have been $roven to be very ancient and could well be older than any other extant manuscri$ts! :uch of what has been translated from these scrolls is similar to some of the oldest manuscri$ts# but there are still very im$ortant differences worthy of note! %e would like to recommend some im$ortant reading on this to$ic at the end of this $a$er! THE QURAN
[Yusuf Estes]

Quran Means "Recitation" The word 4Quran4 means 4that which is recited) or that which is dictated in memory form!4 -s such# it is not a book# nor is it something that reaches us only in written form! The documentation in writting about the 6uran has been $reserved in museums thoughout the world# including the To$eko$i 0alace in ;stanbul# Turkey# the museum in Tashkent# <=bekistan and also in &ngland! (ee$ in mind also# the 6uran is only considered 46uran4 while it is in the recitation form# not in the written or the book form! The word for what is written and held in the hand to be read by the eye is called 4mus>haf4 2meaning scri$t or that which is written down3! Only One Version - Arabic There are no different versions of the 6uran in the -rabic language# only different translations and of course# none of these would be considered to hold the value and authenticity of the original -rabic ?ecitation! The 6uran is divided u$ into *9 e@ual $arts# called 4Ju=A4 2$arts3 in the -rabic language! These are learned by :uslims from their very early beginnings as children! Memorized by Millions - Entirely The im$ortant thing to kee$ in mind about the 6uran is the memori=ation and transmission of the actual 4Rectiation4 Bust as it came to :uhammad# $eace be u$on him# from the -ngel 'abriel and was learned and memori=ed by his com$anions and they in turn# $assed it down to their followers and continued in this way until we see today# over 79#999#999 2ten million3 :uslims who have committed the entire 6uran to memory! This is not a small feat! -fter all# how many other works of literary value

have been memori=ed and $assed down through so many generations# in the original language# without a single change in even one sentenceC Eac Muslim !as "Quran" Memorized -ll :uslims have memor=ied a $ortion of the 6uran in the -rabic language# as this is an im$ortant $art of their daily $rayers! :any :uslims have memori=ed large $ortions of the 6uran from one tenth to one half to all of the entire 6uran# and all in the original -rabic language! ;t should be noted# there are over one and a half billion 27#,99#999#9993 :uslims worldwide and only about 79D are -rab# all the rest are learing the 6uran in -rabic as a second language! "od S#ea$s in %irst &erson to Man$ind in Quran The 6uran contains clear statements from -lmighty 'od 2-llah3 and it is Him s$eaking to all of us in the first $erson! He tells of us our own creation# the creation of all that is the universe and what has ha$$ened to those before us and what is to become of us if we do not take heed of the warnings clearly s$elled out in His ?evelation! He s$eaks also to :uhammad# $eace be u$on him# to show that :uhammad# $eace be u$on him# is not making this u$ himself and even chastises :uhammad# $eace be u$on him# for making human assum$tions rather than waiting for revelation in matters 2ie!) surah -t>Tahreem and surah -basa3! Quran Mentions 'tsel( The 6uran refers to itself as 4The 6uran4 2The ?ecitation3 and mentions that it is to all mankind and Binn 2another creation of -llah# similar to humans in that they could make choices as to whether or not they would obey 'odAs Commandments# and they existed before humans3! Quran Describes "od)s Nature E*actly The 6uran is clear on who 'od is and who He is not! There is no room left for doubt after reading the 6uran in the -rabic langugeE 'od is ne! He is the only Creator# 5ustainer and wner of the <niverse! He has no $artners! He has no relatives) wives# children or offs$ring! He is not like His creation and He does not need it for His existance# while all the time the creation is totally de$endent on Him! His attributes are clearly s$elled out as the e$itome of each and every one! He is for instance# the -ll>(nowing) the -ll>Hearing) the -ll>5eeing) the -ll>Forgiving) the -ll> Loving) the -ll>:erciful) the nly ne 'od! There is never a contradiction to this found anywhere in the 6uran!

Quran + allan,es Readers The 6uran makes the clear challange# that if you are in doubt about it > then bring a book like it! -lso# to bring ten cha$ters like it and then finally# to bring one single cha$ter like it! 7#G99 years > and no one has been able to du$licate itAs beauty# recitation# miracles and ease of memori=ation! -nother challange for the unbelievers to consider) "If this (Quran) were from other than Allah, you would find within it many contradictions." -nd yet# another challange offered by -llah in the 6uran is for the unbelievers to look around for evidences! -llah says He will show them His signs within themselves and on the farthest hori=ons! Scienti(ic Miracles in Quran The scientific miracles of the 6uran could not have been understood at that time# yet today we take for granted the many things included in the revelation of the 6uran! 5ome include mentioningE The formation of embryo in the womb of the mother 2surah 8H3) dee$ seas $artitions) waters that do not mix) clouds and how they make rain and how lightning is caused by ice crystals) formation of the earthAs mountains dee$ underground) orbits of $lanets and stars and moons > and even the mention of s$ace travel 2surah ,,E**3!
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- COMPARISON of BIBLE & QURAN[Dr. Gary Miller- with Commentary by Yusuf Estes]

-ible is +ollection o( .ritin,s Quran is Recitation %rom "od to Mu ammad /#0 %hereas# The Bible is a collection of writings by many different authors# the Quran is a dictation 2or recitation3! The s$eaker in the Quran > in the first person > is 'od -lmighty 2-llah3 talking directly to man! ;n the Bible you have many men writing about 'od and you have in some $laces the word of 'od s$eaking to men and still in other $laces you have some men sim$ly writing about history or $ersonal exchanges of information to one another 2exE &$istle of John *3! The Bible in the &nglish (ing James Iersion consists of 11 small books! -bout 7H of them begin by sayingE This is the revelation God gave to so and so J The rest make no claim as to their origin! Kou have for exam$le the beginning of the book of Jonah which begins by sayingE The word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of &lmitaeh sayingJ @uote and then it continues for two or three $ages!
#ompare this to the $eginning of the %oo& of " Luke" $egins $! sa!ing: 'In as much as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us, (2) Just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us, (3) It seemed

good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent Theo hilus, (!) That you may know the certainty of those things in which you were instructed" We see the author of the %oo& of "Luke" sa!ing essentiall!( "Man! people have written a$out things( it seems fitting for me to do so too") "Luke" sa!s it seems to him that as long as others are ta&ing in hand to write something a$out it( even though the! were e!e witnesses to the whole thing( he feels that even though he was not( he still has "perfect understanding of all things from the ver! first"" *herefore this is onl! a letter from one person to another( neither of whom &new +esus( peace $e upon him( nor were e!ewitnesses to an! of what had ta&en place" [Y" Estes]

;f you com$are that to one of the four accounts of the life of Jesus# Luke begins by sayingE Lmany $eo$le have written about this man# it seems fitting for me to do so tooM! That is allJ no claim of saying L these words were given to me by 'od here they are for you it is a revelationM# there is no mention of this! "-ible" is NOT in t e -ible The Bible does not contain self>reference# that is# the word )-ible) is not in the Bible! "owhere does the Bible talk about itself! 5ome scri$tures are sometimes $ointed to in the Bible# sayE Here where it talks about itself# but we have to look closely! +nd Timothy *E71 is the favourite which readsE L-ll scri$ture is ins$ired of 'odM and there are those who would say# here is where the Bible it talks about itself# it says it is ins$ired of 'od# all of it! But if you read the whole sentence# you read that this was a letter wrote by 0aul to Timothy and the entire sentence says to TimothyE L ince you were a young man you have studied the holy scriptures, all scriptures inspired !y God" and so on# %hen Timothy was a young man the "ew Testament did not exist# the only thing that stems he was talking about are scri$tures N which are only a $ortion of the Bible > from before that time! ;t could not have meant the whole Bible! -ible +urses + urc %at ers . o REMOVED -oo$ o( Re1elations There is at the end of the Bible a verse which saysE
,ev --:./ "0or 1 testif! to ever!one who hears the words of the prophec! of this $oo& 2,evelations3: if anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this boo : .4" 5nd if anyone ta es away from the words of the boo of this prophe!y, god shall ta e away his part from the "oo of #ife( from the hol! cit!( and from the things which are written in this $oo&" [Y" Estes]

LLet anyone who takes away from this book or adds to this book be cursedM! This to is sometimes $ointed to me sayingE Here is where it sums itself as a whole! But look again and you will see that when it saysE Let no one change this book# it is talking about that last book# O11 /or is it 234 in t e +at olic -ible50# the Book of ?evelation! ;t has too# because any reference will tell you that the Book of ?evelation was written

before certain other $arts of the Bible were written! ;t ha$$ens today to be stacked at the end# but there are other $arts that came after# so it can not be referring to the entire book! /'ncidentally6 accordin, to di((erent manuscri#ts muc older t an t e 7in, 8ames Version6 t ere are di((erent words at t e end o( t e -oo$ o( Re1elation6 so ow would we resol1e t at matter5 - 9:E:0
6ote: *he %oo& of ,evelation was ta&en out of the %i$le several times and then replaced and then ta&en out and replaced according to various #hurch #ouncils throughout #hurch histor!" 7uess the #hurch 0athers didn't read the curse at the end of the $oo&8

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;t is an extreme $osition held only by some Christian grou$s that the Bible N in its entirety > cover to cover is the revealed word of 'od in every word# but they do a clever thing when they mention this# or make this claim! They will say that the Bible in its entirety is the word of 'od) inerrant 2no mistakes3 in the original writings! 5o if you go to the Bible and $oint out some mistakes that are in it you are going to be toldE Those mistakes were not there in the original manuscri$t# they have cre$t in so that we see them there today! They are going on $roblem in that $osition! There is a verse in the Bible ;saiah G9EH which in fact is so well known that some Bibles $rinted it on the inside front cover as an introduction and it says E L The grass weathers# the flower fades# but the word of our 'od stands foreverM! Here is a claim in the Bible that the word of 'od will stand forever# it will not be corru$ted# it wonAt be lost! 5o if today you find a mistake in the Bible you have two choices! &ither that $romise was false that when 'od said my word wont fade away# he was mistaken# or the $ortion which has the mistake in it was not a $art of the word of 'od in the first $lace# because the $romise was that it would be safeguarded# it would not be corru$ted! Are T!ere Mi"ta%e"$ ; have suggested many times that there are mistakes in the Bible and the accusation comes back very @uicklyE 5how me one! %ell there are hundreds! ;f you want to be s$ecific ; can mention few! Kou have for exam$le at +nd 5amuel 79E7H a descri$tion of a war fought by .avid saying that he killed /999 men and that he also killed G9999 men on horsebacks! ;n 7st Chronicles 78 it mentions the same e$isode saying that he killed /9999 men and the G9999 men were not on horsebacks# they were on foot! The $oint be what is the difference between the $edestrian and not is very fundamental!

Ho& 'i# (u#a" 'ie$ :atthew +/E, says that Judas ;scariot when he died he hung himself! -cts 7 says that# no he Bum$ed off a cliff head first! ;f you study Logic very soon you will come in your course to what they call an Lundecidable $ro$ositionsM or Lmeaningless sentencesM or statements that can not be decided because there is no contextual false! ne of the classic exam$les sited is something called the &ffeminites $aradox! This man was Cretan and he said LCretans always lieM# now was that statement true or falseC ;f he was a Cretan and he says that they always lie is he lyingC ;f he is not lying then he is telling the truth then the Cretans donPt always lie Q Kou see it can not be true and it can not be false# the statement turns back on itself! ;t is like saying L%hat ; am telling you right now is a lieM would you believe that or notC Kou see the statement has no true content! ;t can not be true and it can not be false! ;f it is true it is always false! ;f it is false it is also true! %ell in the Bible at Titus 7E7+ the writer is 0aul and he is talking about the Cretans! He says that one of their own men N a $ro$het > said LCretans always lieM and he says that what this man says is true! ;t is a small mistake# but the $oint is that it is a human mistake# you donPt find that if you carefully examine the true content of that statement! ;t can not be a true statement! !o i" t!e Aut!or$ "ow ; come back to the 6uran# and as ; mentioned the s$eaker in the 6uran is > in the first $erson > is 'od! The book claims throughout that it is the word of 'od! ;t names itself /9 times as the 6uran! ;t talks about its own contents! ;t has self>reference! The 6uran states in the first 5ura after Fatiha that LThis is the book# there is no doubt in it# it is a guidance for those who are conscious of 'odM and so on and so onJ ;t begins that way and continues that way stressing that! -nd there is one very ama=ing statement in the 6uran when you come to the fourth 5ura H+nd -yah which says to those who say 6uran is something else than the word of 'od! ;t challenges them sayingE LHave they not considered the 6uran# if it came from someone other than 'od they will find in it many mistakesM! 5ome of you are students# would you dare to hand in a $a$er after you com$leted a research work or something at the bottom you $ut down there LKou wont find mistakes in thisM! %ould you dare to challenge your $rofessor that wayC! %ell the 6uran does that! ;t is tellingE ;f you really think you know where this came from then starts looking for mistakes because you wont find any! -nother interesting thing the 6uran does is that it @uotes all its critics! There has never > in hundreds of years > ever been some suggestion as to where that book came from but that the 6uran does not already mention that obBection and re$ly to it! :any times you will find the -yah saying something likeE .o they say such and such and so# say to them such and such and so! ;n every case there is a re$ly! :ore than that the

6uran claims that the evidence of its origin is in itself# and that if you look at this book you will be convinced! Di((erence o( Aut ority 5o the difference in Christianity and ;slam comes down to a difference of authority and a$$eal to authority! The Christian wants to a$$eal to the Bible and the :uslim wants to a$$eal to the 6uran! Kou can not sto$ by sayingE This is true because me book say it is# and somebody else would say something else is true because my book says differently# you can not sto$ at that $oint# and the 6uran does not! The Christians may $oint to some words that it is recorded Jesus said and say this $roves my $oint! But the :uslim does not sim$ly o$en his book and sayE "o# no the 6uran says this# because the 6uran does not sim$ly deny something the Bible says and say something else instead! The 6uran takes the form of a rebuttal# it is a guidance as the o$ening says 2Huda lil mutakeen3! 5o that for every suggestion that the Christian may sayE :y Bible say such and such# the 6uran will not sim$ly sayE "o that is not true# it will sayE .o they say such and such then ask them such and such! Kou have for exam$le the -yah that com$ares Jesus and -dam! There are those who may say that Jesus must have been 'od 25on of 'od3 because he had no father! He had a woman who was his mother# but there was no human father! ;t was 'od that gave him life# so he must have been 'odPs son! The 6uran reminds the Christian in one short sentence to remember -dam > who was his father C > and in fact# who was his mother C He did not have a father either and in fact he did not have a mother# but what does that make himC 5o that the likeness of -dam is the likeness of Jesus# they were nothing and then they became something) that they worshi$ 'od! Quran 'n1ites - Not Demands 5o that the 6uran does not demand belief > the 6uran invites belief# and here is the fundamental difference! ;t is not sim$ly delivered asE Here is what you are to believe# but throughout the 6uran the statements are alwaysE Have you man thought of such and such# have you considered so and so! ;t is always an invitation for you to look at the evidence) now what do you believe C S#ecial &leadin, o( t e -ible The citation of the Bible very often takes the form of what is called in -rgumentationE 5$ecial 0leading! 5$ecial 0leading is when im$lications are not consistent! %hen you take something and you sayE %ell that must mean this# but you donPt use the same argument to a$$ly it to something else! To give an exam$le# ; have seen it in $ublications many times# stating that Jesus must have been 'od because he worked miracles! ;n other hand we know very well that there is no miracle ever worked by

Jesus that is not also recorded in the ld Testament as worked by one of the $ro$hets! Kou had amongst others# &liBah# who is re$orted to have cured the le$er# raise the dead boy to life and to have multi$lied bread for the $eo$le to eat > three of the most favourite miracles cited by Jesus! ;f the miracles worked by Jesus $roved he was 'od# why donPt they $rove &liBah was 'od C This is 5$ecial 0leading# if you see what ; mean! The im$lications are not consistent! ;f this im$lies that then in that case it must also im$ly the same thing! %e have those who would say Jesus was 'od because he was taken u$ in the heaven! But the Bible also says the a certain &inah did not die he was taken u$ into the heaven by 'od! %hether it is true or not# who knows# but the $oint is if Jesus being taken u$ $roves he is 'od# why does not it $rove &inah was 'odC The same thing ha$$ened to him! +lear &arts ; Di((icult &arts o( -ible ; wrote to a man one time# who wrote a book about Christianity and ; had some of the obBections ; mentioned to you now! -nd his re$ly to me was that ; am making matters difficult to myself# that there are $ortions in the Bible that are crystal clear and that there are $ortions that are difficult# and that my $roblem was that ; am looking at the difficult $art instead of the clear $arts! The $roblem is that this is an exercise in self dece$tion > why are some $arts clear and some $arts difficultC ;t is because somebody decided what this clearly means# now that makes this very difficult! To give you an exam$le# John Cha$ter 7G a certain man said to JesusE 5how us 'od# and Jesus saidE ;f you have seen me you have seen 'od! "ow without reading on the Christian will sayE 5ee Jesus claimed to be 'od# he said if you have seen me you have seen 'od! ;f that is crystal clear then you have a difficult $ortion when you go back Bust a few $ages to Cha$ter , when another man came to Jesus and said show us 'od and he said you have never seen 'od you have never heard his voice! "ow what did he mean there if on the other occasion he meant that he was 'odC bviously you have made matters difficult by deciding what the first one meant! ;f you read on in Cha$ter 7G you will see what he went on to say! He was saying the closest you are going to seeing 'od are the works you see me doing! -ible Does Not +laim 8esus +laimed to -e Son o( "od ;t is a fact that the words Lson of 'odM are not found on the li$s of Jesus anywhere in the first three 'os$el accounts# he was always calling himself the 5on of :an! -nd it is a curious form of reasoning that ; have seen so often that it is established from Bible that he claimed to be 'od because > look how the Jews reacted! They will say for exam$le he said such and such and the Jews said he is blas$heming# he claimed to be 'od and they tried to stone him! 5o they argue that he must have been claiming to be 'od because look Q > the Jews tried to kill him! They said thatPs what he was claiming! But the interesting thing is that all the evidence is then built on the fact that

a $erson is sayingE ; believed that Jesus was the son of 'od because the Jews who killed him said thatPs what he used to say Q His enemies used to say that# so he must have said it# this is what it amounts to! ;n other hand we have the words of Jesus saying he would kee$ the law# the law of :oses and we have the statement in the Bible# why did the Jews kill him C Because he broke the law of :oses! bviously the Jews misunderstood him# if he $romised he would kee$ the law# but they killed him because he broke the law# they must have misunderstood him# or lied about him! .riters o( -ible - Out o( +onte*t %hen ; talk about the Bible and @uote various verses here and there ; am often accused of $utting things out of context# to say you have lifted something out of what it was talking about and given it a meaning! ; donPt want to res$ond to the accusation as such# but it doesnPt seem to occur to many $eo$le that $erha$s those who wrote $ortions of the Bible in the first $lace were guilty of the same thing! :aybe they N some of those writers > believed a certain thing and in order to $rove it @uoted from their scri$tures N the ld Testament# the Hebrew writings > @uoted out of context to $rove their $oint! There are exam$les of that kind of thing! ;n :atthew + it said that a king wanted to kill the young child Jesus so he with his family went to &gy$t# and they stayed there until that king died# and then they came back! %hen the writer of :atthew# whoever he was# because the name :atthew wonAt be found in the book of :atthew) when he described this event saying that he came back out of &gy$t# he saidE L This was to fulfil a $ro$hecy which is writtenM and then he @uotes Hosea Cha$ter 77 L ut of &gy$t ; called my 5onM! 5o he said because Jesus went to &gy$t and then came back out of &gy$t and we have this $assage in the Hebrew scri$tures Lout of &gy$t ; called my sonM Jesus must have been the son of 'od! ;f you look and see what he was @uoting# Hosea 77E7 he @uotes the second half of a com$lete sentence# the com$lete sentence readsE L%hen ;srael was young ; loved him and out of &gy$t ; called my sonM! ;srael the nation was considered as the son of 'od! :oses was told to go to 0haraoh and say to himE ;f you touch that nation of $eo$le# you touch my son) warning him# warning 0haraohE donPt touch that nation# calling the nation Lthe son of 'odM! 5o that this is the only thing talked about in Hosea 77E7! L ut of &gy$t ; called my sonM can only refer to the nation of ;srael! ; mentioned this $oint some months ago here in another talk# to which a young lady with us obBected that ;srael is a symbolic name for Jesus! Kou will have a hard time finding that anywhere in the Bible because it isnPt there! Kou can take an index of the Bible and looku$ the word L;sraelM everywhere the word occurs and you will find no where in any $lace that you can connect the word ;srael with Jesus! But never mind > su$$ose it is true# read on# the second verse says Land after that he ke$t on worshi$$ing BalM# because this is what the ;sraelites were guilty of# very often they

ke$t falling back into ;dol worshi$$ing! 5o if that L;sraelM really meant Jesus and it means that Jesus is the son of 'od that came out of &gy$t they must also mean that Jesus from time to time used to bow down to that idol Bal! Kou have to be consistent# and follow through on what it says! 5o the $oint is whoever wrote :atthew and Cha$ter + was trying to $rove a $oint by @uoting something out of context# and he undid himself# because if you follow through on it# it can not be so! Quran !as 'nternal E1idences "ow ; can come back to the claim the 6uran makes that it has internal evidence of its origin! There are many many ways that you can look at this! -s one exam$le# if ; single out somebody here and sayE Kou know# ; know your father > he is going to doubt that# he has never seen me with his father! He would say# how does he look like# is he tall short does he wear glassesC and so on# and if ; give him the right answers $retty soon he will get convinced# L h yes# you did meet himM! ;f you a$$ly the same kind of thinking when you look at the 6uran# here is a book that says it came from the one who was there when the universe began! 5o you should be asking that oneE 5o tell me something that $roves it! Tell me something that shows me you must have been there when the universe was beginning! Kou will find in two different -yahs the statement that all the creation began from a single $oint# and from this $oint it is ex$anding! ;n 78/H they gave the "oble $ri=e to two $eo$le who $roved that thats the case! ;t is the big bang origin of the universe! ;t was determined by the large radio receivers that they have for the tele$hone com$anies which were sensitive enough to $ick u$ the transmissions from satellites and it ke$t finding background noise that they could not account for! <ntil the only ex$lanation came to be# it is the left over energy from that original ex$losion which fits in exactly as would be $redicted by the mathematical calculation of what would be this thing if the universe began from a single $oint and ex$loded outwards! 5o they confirmed that# but in 78/H! Centuries before that here is the 6uran saying the heavens and the earth in the beginning they were one $iece and s$lit and says in another -yah E L o( t e ea1ens we are e*#andin, itM! Quran !as E*act Accuracy Let me tell you about a $ersonal investigation# it occurred to me that there are a number of things you can find in the 6uran that give evidence to its origin N internal evidence! ;f the 6uran is dictated from a $erfect individual) it originates with 'od# then there should not be any wasted s$ace# it should be very meaningful! There should be nothing that we donPt need that you can cut off# and it should not be missing anything! -nd so that everything in there should really be there for a s$ecific $ur$ose! -nd ; got to thinking about the -yah which ; mentioned before# it says# the likeness of Jesus is the likeness of -dam! ;t an e@uation# it uses the -rabic word 2mithel3# it says

Jesus# -dam# e@ual! Kou go to the index of the 6uran# you look u$ the name ;5- it is in the 6uran +, times# you looku$ the name -dam it is there +, times! They are e@ual# through scattered references but +, of each! Follow that through and you will find that in the 6uran there are H $laces were an -yah says something is like something else# using this 2:ithel3# you will find in every case and take both sides of it whatever that word is look it u$ in the index and it will be lets say 779 times and looku$ the other word and it will be said to be e@ual to the same 779! That is @uite a $roBect of co> ordination if you try to write a book that way yourself! 5o that everywhere you ha$$ened to mention that such and such is like such and such that then you check your index# filing system# or your ;B: $unch cards or whatever# to make sure that in this whole book you mentioned them both the same number of times! But thatPs what you will find in the 6uran! Quran &ro1ides Reason %hat ; am talking about is built on a thing that is called in LogicE <se and :ention of a %ord! %hen you use a word# you are using its meaning! %hen you mention a word# you are talking about the symbol without the meaning! For exam$le# if ; say Toronto is a big city > ; used the word Toronto as ; meant this $lace Toronto is a big city! But if ; say to you Toronto has / letters# ; am not talking about this $lace Toronto# ; am talking about this word > Toronto! 5o# the revelation is above reasoning# but it is not above reason! That is to say we are more a$t not to find in the 6uran something that is unreasonable# but we may find something that we would have never figured out for ourselves! <ni=ue .ord Re(ers to 'tsel( in Quran The author of this sentence said if this book came from someone besides 'od then you will find in it many ;khtalafan 2inconsistencies3! The word ;khtilaf is found many times in the 6uran! But the word ;khtalafan is only found once in the 6uran! 5o there are not many ;khtilafan in the 6uran# there is only one > where the sentence is mentioned! 5o you see how things are $ut together $erfectly! ;t has been suggested to mankindE Find a mistake! :an could not get hold of a mistake# and he is very clever# because this sentence could also meanE Find many ;ktilafan and so he @uickly goes to the index to see if he can find many of them and there is only one!!! 5orry clever $erson!
3end of Dr. Gary Miller and Yusuf Estes4 Bible And Quran - Originally Both From Allah +onclusion5 Both the Bible and the 'uran have co"e to us by way of *l"ighty God! then through #is angel Gabriel and then to the prophets! peace be upon the". #owever! when

the ne2t step co"es into play .that of the hu"an beings faithfully trans"itting it on to others and future generations/ we find out that *llah has only perserved #is 0ast and 6inal 7evelation for all ti"es. *nd #e certainly did not need the hu"ans to do that. Respect For Holy Books Musli"s should respect the Bible because it does still contain so"e of the original teachings of *llah. But there is no need to go to Bible classes or purchase one to read to try to learn about what our purpose is here in this life. (he 'uran "a es it clear that *llah has indeed! perfected our )way of life) for us and has conferred on us #is favor and has chosen for us to sub"it to #i" in Isla". ,e would li e to suggest to the non-Musli"s to consider obtaining a 'uran .order one free through our site if you li e/ and then investigate for the"sleves what the 'uran is really all about and what it "ight "ean to the" in their lives. 36ree 'uran available at5 http588isla"to"orrow.co"8free 4 6inal co""ent fro" Yusuf Estes5 I would li e to state that after years of studying the Bible and then learning the *rabic language to read the 'uran as it was originally recited to Muha""ad! peace be upon hi"! by the angel Gabriel! I have co"e to an a"a9ing conclusion. It see"s to "e that the Bible and the 'uran are "ost definitely fro" the e2act sa"e source and they co"pli"ent each other very nicely. In fact! it appears that the Bible does not contradict the 'uran! e2cept in the very sa"e places where the Bible contradicts itself.