An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam — Page 384
384 Background This book was prompted by a letter that the Promised Messiah as received from a Muslim of B a nce Barel i. In the mind of this Muslim, a number of doubts arose about Islam after he had read a highly misleading and provocative Christian tract on Islam under the title of Yan a b i ‘ ul-Isl a m. The Christian missionary argued in this book that Islam had brought no new teachings, and the Holy Quran is based mostly on tales of the past, some true and some wrong, some of them plagiarized, and this act was attributed to the Holy Prophet sa. The Book This charge against the Holy Quran and the Holy Prophet sa was enough to prompt the Promised Messiah as to write a convincing rebuttal with reasons and arguments. The Promised Messiah as says: I am amazed, why you (Muslims) have been influenced by the writings of such people, who are past masters in hoodwinking the people. They are like the magicians of the days of Moses, who made their ropes crawl like snakes. But since Moses was the Prophet of God, his “rod” swallowed up all the snakes. In the same way, the Holy Quran is the rod of God and it was, day by day, gradually swallowing up all such rope-snakes. And that day is at hand, rather very near, when no vestige of such ropes or snakes will be left. If the author of Y a nab i ul Islam has toiled hard to prove that the Holy Quran was based on legend and stories, he totally failed. The writer of this Christian tract in his own thoughts proved that the teachings of the Bible were based on the Jews’ book, The Old Testament, and some other books of Israel. And he contended that this plagiarism took place in such a clear way that pages after pages were literally copied. This scholar tried to establish the fact that the New Testament is a collection of plagiarized material. In fact, he showed up his ugly finesse when he maintained that the Sermon of the Mount by Jesus