Why Did Allah Allow People Of The Book To Corrupt Crucial Details?
Always meant their scholars. Are all of their scholars working in the exact way? No single scholar break away and said, “I think based on scripture, there is room for a last prophet?” Are all of them are twisting the words? You need to reconsider your stance and try to consider Ghamidi Sahab’s view. Because it is against common sense, that every scholars is the same. Then the argument would be that muslims rule christian lands for hundreds of yrs and changed the scripture and burnt the original bible or something similar. This is a What-If scenario though. But even so, such a scenario would be better in my opinion. So it doesn’t help your case. You can however, address the original question and highlight why Allah never went for this scenario, one obvious benefit of it would be that I won’t be asking this question today. Plz allow me to share my perspective regarding the vagueness you mentioned, may be there’s some good in it I am afraid your perspective is……well not exactly strange but rather I’m not sure how this answers what I have put forth. Why are you talking about science and religion? If I was reading Qur’an 21:33 in a flat-earth era, I would read the verse in context of it being a religious book, not a fact book, this is exactly how Ghamidi Sahab insists that you read the book and not look for number/science miracles out of it. So your example feels flat for me. Then you talk about human knowledge being limited which is a strange argument to offer since I am not asking Allah to explain rocket science to me not sure why you are highlighting that Allah of opening another dimension example. Then you talk about archeology not working out for the Bible and then focus on how Qur’an being proven reliable through scientific truth shows that it will be correct and that we can hope the missing historical information will be correct as well which again seems to make me question how it connects with anything I said. Now allow me explain why all of this doesn’t even address my vagueness argument at all. I am not asking Allah to explain rocket science to me in Qur’an. I am asking is that if Allah refers to figures such as Moses (AS), Ibrahim (AS) and Jesus (AS) then surely these historical figures would leave behind evidences because nations like Egypt, Romans and Greek left behind evidences. But Allah did not allow evidence of Moses (AS), Ibrahim (AS) or Jesus (AS) survive. Why is that, why the vagueness? If Allah so wanted, He could have made such figures well-known in history but choose not to? Why? Qur’an is the truth FOR ME, as a Muslim, what it says is true. But my question was how everything has been made vague FOR THE NON MUSLIM because guess what, they don’t believe in the Qur’an. People have become atheists when they find out that Exodus of Moses (AS) didn’t happen, this is a foundation of both Judaism and Christianity! And once they go down this path, they will not care to look for Islam which they believe is an offshoot of these “false religions” henceforth the vagueness of the situation causes this. How is it a test for them when they will never even consider the Qur’an or its “scientific miracles” or anything since the vagueness have already turned them away? This is why what you said doesn’t seems to do anything for me. We are clear that crucification never happened. Tell that to the non-Muslims. (The atheists will go one step ahead and tell you that Jesus (AS) probably never existed either). I believe that ayah (4:157) is referring to people who tried killing Jesus AS and not the chrisitians. Let me quote what it says so you understand what I mean by the vagueness in it. That they said (in boast), “We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah”;- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:- (4:157) “It was made to appear to them” So Allah made the situation dubious! The situation has been made vague to the non-Muslims. Why? The crucification and the original sin were invented quite a long time after the event had happened. Because Allah did not allow Jesus’ (AS) message to last. Again why? I agree with prophetic prophecies have been rejected and made fun of. Acceptance of prophecies is no longer an issue, the issue is that you need to bring out an example of a Jew or Christian that even admits there is a possible future prophet. Until then, we are the “Noor-e-Muhammad inserters” for them. How can a book like Quran can be written by an unlettered shepherd? I am afraid when you present the Qur’an as a collection of scientific truths, people start to view it entirely as a book like that. Soon they will start talking about how Qur’an talks about the sun “setting in murky water” before you need to explain to them Qur’an is just book of guidance, not a science book. Ghamidi Sahab is strictly against this approach of presenting Qur’an in what way you are presenting. Nor was Prophet Muhammad PBUH an unlettered person according to Ghamidi Sahab, unlettered according to him refers to gentile i.e Prophet (PBUH) was not an Israelite prophet according to Ghamidi Sahab, that’s why he is referred to as “unlettered” and that is what Isaiah 42 refers to as well, a prophet for the gentiles. Conclusion, some people do not see Qur’an as anything special in the way you are arguing. I can talk about how Ghamidi Sahab suggests how to handle such a situation but right now, I am here to respond to your points. how can a man give ideas so not relative to his time (referring to concepts of morality in Muhammad SAW life and hadiths) how can a man act so strangely and completely opposite to his environment and upbringing? Before you could even present this character of Prophet (PBUH), you are going to have sit through all the misconceptions that Jews and Christians have about his morality and character to the point that his true personality will be lost upon them. This is so because guess what, things are vague. Especially when you go and try to explain the entire science of Hadith to them but they will drop and leave midway because they will see us trying to put forth a way to cherry-pick Hadiths so that can I present a flawless character of my prophet and appear deceptive to them. This will be more than enough to guide whoever wants to be guided I don’t think you are aware of what Muslims have to go through in most debates.