Fountain of Christianity — Page 8
8 Brother! These are black-hearted people who do not fear God. They are trying, day and night, to make people love darkness and forsake the light. I cannot understand how you could be influenced by the writings of such people. They are, in fact, worse than the magicians who had turned ropes into serpents in the presence of Prophet Moses as , but since he was a Prophet of God, his staff swallowed up all their serpents. The Holy Quran is like- wise the 'staff of God' which continues to swallow up snakes made of ropes, and the day is coming—it is indeed at hand—when they shall all disappear without a trace. The author of Yan a b i -ul-Islam has tried to prove that the Holy Quran has been copied from certain accounts or books, but his effort is nothing compared to the effort made by a learned Jew to determine the authenticity of the Gospels. He has established, in his own estimation, that the moral teachings of the Gospels have been taken from the Jewish scripture Talmud and certain other books of the Israelites, and that this act of plagiary has been so bla- tant that whole paragraphs have been copied word for word. The scholar has proved that the Gospels are a col- lection of stolen material, and has gone so far as to prove that the 'Sermon on the Mount'—in which Christians take such pride—has been copied verbatim from the Talmud. He has shown that the text has also been copied from various other books, and has thus astonished many people. European researchers are also taking a keen interest in this research. I recently came across a book written by a Hindu in which he, too, had tried to prove that the Gospels have