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The Bible                                    The Qur'an

It is shrouded in uncertainty and reveals    The Qur'an firmly confirms its certainty :
shortcomings: "Which if I have done          "This is the Book about which there is
well, and as it becomes the history, it      no doubt, a guidance for those
is what I desired: but if not so             conscious of Allah." (2/2)
perfectly, it must be pardoned me." (2
Maccabees 15/39)                             Allah has taken upon Himself to guard it and
                                             protect it against corruption: "It is We who
Humans have been instructed to maintain it,  have sent down the Reminder (i.e., the
but they haven't: "Much in every way!        Qur'an) and We will, most surely,
Chiefly because to them were                 safeguard it." (15/9)
committed the oracles of God. For
what if some did not believe? Will their     "…Truly, it is a mighty Book. Falsehood
unbelief make the faithfulness of God        cannot approach it from before it or
without effect?" (Romans 3/ 2-3(             from behind it; [it is] a revelation from
                                             a [Lord who is] Wise and
"How can you say, 'We are wise, and          Praiseworthy." (41/41-42)
the law of the Lord is with us?' Look,       "And it was not [possible] for this
the false pen of the scribe certainly        Qur'an to be produced by other
works falsehood." (Jeremiah 8/8)             than Allah, but [it is] a confirmation of
"And the oracle of the Lord you shall        what was before it and a detailed
mention no more. For every man's             explanation of the [former] Scripture,
word shall be his oracle, for you have       about which there is no doubt, from
perverted the words of the living God,       the Lord of the worlds." (10/37) "Will
the Lord of hosts, our God." (Jeremiah       they not ponder on the Qur'an? If it
23/36)                                       had not come from Allah, they would
"And in vain they worship Me, teaching       have surely found in it many
as doctrines the commandments of             contradictions." (4/82)
men." (Matthew 15/9)
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