A Comparative Glance At the Qur'an and the Gospel

Epilogue

" Hast thou not (O' Our Apostle Muhammad!) seen those (the Jews) who have been given a portion of the Book." (Al-e-Imran, 23)

The study that we had so far on the New Testament especially the Gospels and their relation with the Holy Quran improved the above Quranic verse which specifies that the people of the Book have just a part of the main revealed book and not all of it, and, it shows that The Torah and the Gospel have been altered.

On the other hand, the verse indicates that all of their contents are not wrong because as we read before, some beliefs available in the New Testament have a specific similarity with the Holy Quran. " The words, ‘those who are given a portion of the book’, refer to the people of the Book. This changed phrasing points to a well-known historical fact:

The Jews and the Christians do not have in their hands the complete books; what they have got is only some portions of the revealed Scriptures. They have altered, changed and edited the books so extensively that the major part of the original has been lost for ever. The last sentence too alludes to this fact: ‘and what they have forged deceives them in the matter of their religion.’ The verse, in short, says-and Allah knows better-that the Jews and the Christians turn back from the judgment of the Book of Allah, being deceived by their own claim, and misled by what they have themselves forged; they demonstrate, by their behaviour, that they do not need the Book of Allah.