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30 instinctively being drawn towards Islam, and how books are being written in its support. This is why many people from countries like America have joined my Jam a ‘at. Falsehood cannot remain hidden forever! Why would Divine revelation need to copy extracts from such books? These people are blind and so are their books. Only those who do not at all fear God can make such objections against the Holy Prophet sa , for it is obvious that the people of the Peninsula in which the Holy Quran was revealed had virtually no knowledge of Christian and Jewish books, and the Holy Prophet sa was himself unlettered. If such an objec- tion can be raised against the Holy Prophet sa , then just imagine the sort of objections that would be raised against Jesus as , who learnt the Torah word for word from a Jewish scholar, and read all the books of the Jews such as the Talmud, and whose Gospel is replete with passages from Talmud and the Old Testament! The Gospel is, in fact, so susceptible to all kinds of suspicions that we would not have believed in it had the Holy Quran not commanded us to do so. What a pity that there is nothing in the Gospel which is not to be found in earlier scriptures in exactly the same words. Why, then, should it be considered unrea- sonable and outrageous if the Holy Quran has collected the scattered truths and verities of the Bible in one place? And how can you say that Divine revelation cannot be the source of all the Quranic accounts, while it has been es- tablished with clear and categorical signs that the Holy Prophet sa was a recipient of Divine revelation, and the blessings of his true Prophethood continue to be mani-