Muhammad The Great Exemplar — Page 39
39 There are so many different versions of the Vedas each one appears as though a separate book. Therefore, bits and pieces have been taken from these various texts to produce a single edition. The state of the Torah is such that in one place it recounts the death of Moses as and says no prophet like him has ever been born, and yet it is also claimed that the whole book was revealed directly to Moses as himself. And as far as the Bible is concerned, its various editions are so contradictory that [when looked at in juxtaposition], they cannot be recognised as the same book. Time and again Christians change and alter it. At one moment, a particular verse is included in the Bible and considered canonical, and at another it is deemed to be false and taken out. Today, whole chapters have been removed altogether on the pretext that they were added at a later date. But the real issue is that if the Bible had been collated from authentic sources, then the period of interpolation and redaction would not have extended to 1900 years. Admittedly, it can be argued the [Christians] of the past failed to understand biblical verses as lucidly as those who came afterwards. However, in terms of its actual content, it is difficult to justify that early Christians were mistaken in what they inserted and that only now, some 1900 years later, can it be conclusively determined what the makeup of the Bible should consist of. [Accordingly], those who