Ali Ataie – When Muslims Quote the Bible

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.