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 === Analysis ===
-The Qur'an claims to be the continuation of the message from Allah. We note in the verses above that it claims to confirm the message in the previous books that the '''Jews and Christians have with them'''.
+The Qur'an claims to be the continuation of the message from Allah. We note in the verses above that it claims to confirm the message in the previous books that the ''Jews and Christians have with them''.
 *{{Quran|2|89}} ''"...a book from Allah verifying that which they have."''
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 From the above verses we can see that the Qur'an confirms that the Jews and Christians had ''intact'' scriptures at the time of Muhammad. They ''have'' the book with Allah's judgment in it (the Taurat). Some Muslims claim that parts of it are Allah's book and parts are not.
-*If I write a thesis and someone copies it; omitting parts and adding other parts in there. It is no longer my thesis but a bastardization of my thesis. Would I then say "yes, that's my thesis!" or would I say "parts of that are mine but these parts are not"? Certainly if I were talking about it, I would state that it was no longer my thesis because the words are changed.
+*If you write a thesis and someone copies it; omitting parts and adding other parts in there. It is no longer your thesis but a bastardization of your thesis. Would you then say "yes, that's my thesis!" or would you say "parts of that are mine but these parts are not"? Certainly if you were talking about it, you would state that it was no longer your thesis because the words are changed.
-*Another example: Say I ask you to write down 10 numbers (which I then dictate to you). You write down 5 of them, but can't remember the other five so you write 5 of your own in there to make it up to 10 numbers. I come to check the numbers you've written down. Do I say Yes, those are the numbers I gave you (I verify) or do I say No, you only have five of the numbers I gave you?
+*Another example: If someone asks you to write down 10 numbers (which they then dictate to you). You write down 5 of them, but cannot remember the other five so you write 5 of your own to make it up to 10 numbers. They come to check the numbers you have written down. Do they say "yes, those are the numbers I gave you (they verify) or do they say "no, you only have five of the numbers I gave you?"
-The bottom line is this: if the physical scriptures were corrupted, Allah would not say he "verifies that which you have" he would have said that he "verifies '''parts''' of which you have" and then indicate that the texts are no longer intact. The only conclusions we can draw from these statements of Allah, are that: <BR>
+The bottom line is this: if the physical scriptures were corrupted, Allah would not say he "verifies that which you have" he would have said that he "verifies ''parts'' of which you have" and then indicate that the texts are no longer intact. The only conclusions we can draw from these statements of Allah, are that: <BR>
 (a) The Jews were literate - they knew their scriptures; they 'threw the book of Allah behind their backs as if they knew nothing." How could they know the book of Allah if it was corrupted?<BR>
 (b) That The Jews and Christians both had intact (alleged) revelations from Allah when the Qur'an was revealed. Since we have manuscripts that pre-date Muhammad's time, that are the same as the Bible we have today, then we can conclude that the scriptures that we have today are the same as they were in Muhammad's time.