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==History of Believing the Bible Corrupted==
The first known Muslim to recognize the contradictions between the Bible and the Qur'anwas Ibn Khazem (?-1064 CE), vizier of Spain and writer against Christians. He concluded that because they were in disagreement, the Bible (containing the Torah, Zabur, and Injil) must be wrong. However, knowing that the Qur'an told Muhammad "believe in what hath been revealed to thee and what (scripture) was revealed before thee (the Torah and the Injil)." Qur'an Surah 4.162 He concluded, "Therefore, the present text must have been falsified by the Christians after the time of Muhammad."
Some scholars, such as Al Ghazzali (?-1111 CE), disagreed. Ibn Kathir (1301-1372) wrote that the Jews did not alter the Torah, only their interpretation of the Torah:
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The phrase "[they] displace words from (their) right places" means that they mistinterpret them and understand them in a way that Allaah did not intend, doing this deliberately and inventing lies against Allaah.
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However, in the following two hundred years, most scholars came to agree with Ibn Khazem, but they pushed the date of change earlier, previous to the time of Muhammad. [[Paul]] and [[Constantine]] were often blamed. In more modern times, the belief of such conspiracy has been downplayed and replaced with the idea that corruption came through many small changes by many copyists in the second and third centuries CE for the Injil. The corruption of the Torah and Zabur was moved back to before Jesus' time, before the earliest manuscripts known today. Today, the corruption of the holy books is a virtually undisputed belief.
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Most Muslims will say the Qur'an only refers to the Torah, Psalms, and the Gospels, but the Qur'an's meaning is obscure and could mean the entire Old and New Testaments. This article will use '''Bible''' as short to mean whatever the Qur'an meant.
==History of Corruption==The first known Muslim to recognize the contradictions between the Bible and the Qur'an was Ibn Khazem (?-1064 CE), vizier of Spain and writer against Christians. Thus for four hundred years there was no reference to the idea. He concluded that because they were in disagreement, the Bible (containing the Torah, Zabur, and Injil) must be wrong. However, knowing that the Qur'an told Muhammad "believe in what hath been revealed to thee and what (scripture) was revealed before thee (the Torah and the Injil)." Qur'an Surah 4.162 He concluded, "Therefore, the present text must have been falsified by the Christians after the time of Muhammad." Some scholars, such as Al Ghazzali (?-1111 CE), disagreed. Ibn Kathir (1301-1372) wrote that the Jews did not alter the Torah, only their interpretation of the Torah:<blockquote>The phrase "[they] displace words from (their) right places" means that they mistinterpret them and understand them in a way that Allaah did not intend, doing this deliberately and inventing lies against Allaah.</blockquote> However, in the following two hundred years, most scholars came to agree with Ibn Khazem, but they pushed the date of change earlier, previous to the time of Muhammad. [[Paul]] and [[Constantine]] were often blamed. In more modern times, the belief of such conspiracy has been downplayed and replaced with the idea that corruption came through many small changes by many copyists in the second and third centuries CE for the Injil. The corruption of the Torah and Zabur was moved back to before Jesus' time, before the earliest manuscripts known today. Today, the corruption of the holy books is a virtually undisputed belief. ==Qur'anic Verses== ===The Qur'an "Confirms" the Bible===
The first set of references cite the Qur'an as "confirming" the Bible. Yusuf Ali's translation is used except as noted. For brevity, the entire verse is not quoted. The excluded text never changes the meaning of the included text.
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===Commands to Believe in the Bible===
The following verses command those who hear the Qur'an to believe in the Bible, which they could not do if the Bible was corrupted.
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===Jews and Christians to Use the Bible===
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The context of the preceding verse is speaking to an unrighteous Jew, meaning that had he study Torah, he would not be unrighteous.
==More =Misc References===
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===No Book can Be Changed===
The Qur'an says that God protects the Qur'an from being corrupted. Some Christians claim that the Qur'an is speaking of the Bible as well.
==The Bible in AhadithHadith References==
The ahadith report the Bible is not corrupted as well.
==Alleged References to the Corruption==
Muslims cite several verses as saying that the Bible was corrupted. However, these verses clearly refer to verbally changing Bible, either by their hypocrisy, actually misquoting the Bible, or simply disagreeing with what Muhammad ''thought'' the Bible says. Also, the people the Qur'an refers to are still alive at the time of the Qur'an's speaking, whereas those who corrupted the Bible must have been long dead.
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''They change the words from their (right) places and forget a good part of the message that was sent them, nor wilt thou cease to find them. 5.13''
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==Corruption after Muhammad==
A possible way to avoid contradiction to say the Bible was corrupted after the Qur'an was written. However, this is impossible also. Many manuscripts of the Bible are dated before Muhammad, enough to reconstruct the entire Old and New Testament.
