Fountain of Christianity — Page 12
12 Holy Quran, but can we conclude from this that the Holy Prophet sa had studied the Vedas? The Gospels that have now become available—thanks to the printing press— were not known to anyone in Arabia, and the people of that land were simply unlettered. If there happened to be an odd Christian among them, he was not likely to know much about his own religion. 10 It is therefore despicable to think that the Holy Prophet sa plagiarized from these books. The Holy Prophet sa was unlettered and could not even read Arabic, let alone Greek or Hebrew. It is now upon our opponents to produce any manuscript of that time from which these accounts are supposed to have been taken. If the Holy Quran contained material copied from other sources, the Christians of Arabia, who were bitter enemies of Islam, would at once have cried out that it has been taken from their own accounts. Remember, the Holy Quran 11 is the only scripture in the world that proclaims itself to be a miracle. It forcefully as- serts that its prophecies and narratives are from the realm 10 Reverend Pfander has admitted in his book, M i z a n-ul- H aq, that the Christians of Arabia were also like savages and were quite ignorant. [Author] 11 The Holy Quran claimed that it was a unique and miraculous book, and it challenged anyone who considered it to be the word of man to come forward and prove it, but no opponent took up the challenge. The Gospels, on the other hand, were declared plagiarized by the Jews at that very time [when they were written], nor have they ever claimed that man cannot produce anything like them. Therefore, the Gospels may be suspected of having been plagiarized, but not the Holy Quran, for it claims that no man can ever produce such a book and the silence of the opponents has proved the truth of this claim. [Author]