Qur'an, Hadith and Scholars:Corruption of Previous Scriptures: Difference between revisions

{{QuranHadithScholarsIndex}}

The Qur'an has quite a bit to say about the Jews, the Christians, and their scriptures. Although it is taken as an article of faith by most Muslims today that they Jews and Christians either deliberately changed or accidentally allowed their scriptures to be corrupted over the years, the Qur'an never actually says this. Rather, the Qur'an is full of remarks to the effect that it is simply a continuation of the message given by Allah to all his prophets and apostles. As it lacks a firm basis in the Qur'an, the doctrine of the corruption of the scriptures of the people of the book is one that many scholars below do not believe. In the modern day it is often noted by Muslim scholars how impossible this doctrine seems from a historical view. The very large differences in doctrine and belief, though, between modern Muslims and the other "people of the book", however, makes the conclusion that the other scriptures are corrupted almost impossible to escape for the orthodox Muslim.