Ali Ataie – When Muslims Quote the Bible
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Imam al Hazadi, for example, is a medieval
scholar. He quotes the Bible a lot actually.
In the Ikhail al Madin, the quote from
the gospel of Matthew,
he quotes a lot from Isa,
sometimes from the Bible, sometimes from our own
hadith. But sometimes he does quote from the
Bible.
So the general rule here is that as
long as it doesn't,
contradict our essential aqidah,
then you can quote from his Saidiya tradition.
But we do it with caution. Imam al
Zawdi actually wrote a great a great reputation
of Christianity,
called
the beautiful reputation
of the divinity of Jesus,
based on the Bible itself.
Right? He just quoted the Bible.
He used the Bible as his proof text
that Isa
is not God.
Ibn Utaimiya has something similar. Ibn Utaimiya has
a book called Urat al Sahir, which is
actually really interesting
because Imam Ghazari, he said the Bible
is corrupted in its meanings.
Right? It's called Taheref. Taheref means
corruption of of of text.
So Quran talks about the Quran, the Bible
being corrupted in text.
But what is the nature of this tahareef?
Imam Ghazali says the text itself is sound,
but the Christians corrupted the meanings.
So he accepts the text of the New
Testament.
It's a they call it an affirmative approach
of the New Testament.
But the Christians have changed the meanings of
these texts. If Nutanix says, no. The actual
text has changed.
And this is correct. The text has changed.
And he shows different,
manuscripts
that say different things. Right? So they have
this type of really academic,
engagement
with the, with the Bible.
So generally then, there's 3 types of Isaridiyat.
There's 3 types of
or 3
3 types of looking 3 ways of looking
at these Israelite traditions.
The first is those known to be true
because the revelation of the prophet
confirms
them. For example,
in the 5th book of the Torah, it
says, hear, oh, Israel, the Lord our God,
the Lord is 1.
Okay? You guys wanna hear it in Hebrew?
God is
Right?
So we would say, oh,
That sounds like a valid
portion of the Torah.
Right?
But it sounds good.
Right?
In Mark chapter 10 18, he repeats this
verse verbatim.
Right?
Israel, the lord our god, the lord is
1.
Those known to be true because the revelation
of the prophet confirms them. The second type
are those known to be false
because the revelation of the prophet
rejects
them.
For example, if you read the Old Testament,
you'll read about the prophets
like Dawud and Suhaimah doing things that are
completely haram,
that are mustahil,
impossible
for prophets to do. I'm not gonna mention
what they do. But even we don't do
these types of things, and we do a
lot of things. But these must be prophets
doing all kinds of crazy things. So we
don't confirm these stories. This is obviously false.
Right? Or like in the New Testament, it
says, Risa, alayhis salam, is crucified.
All 4 gospels mentioned, he's crucified.
The Quran says,
so we don't affirm that either.