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                                                          The critics of Muhammad who cannot tolerate his  Prophethood, deny the divine revelation to him, and ascribe the Qur’an to be a  biblical copy. The histories of ancient societies and prophets referred in the  Qur’an are said to be the supportive evidence. But so far no Christian writers  could prove it with factual certifications. They attribute the names of Waraqa(1)  and Bahira(2) in connection with this biblical knowledge. They are not hesitant  to affirm boldly that Muhammad heard the stories from the Jew and Christian  societies inhabited therein. 
                                       
                                           Bauben discusses the Issue: ‘often the argument has been  that the Quranic views agree more with what the Jews and Christians would call  no-canonical or apocryphal works. The conclusion has therefore almost always  been that Muhammad merely heard these heretical stories from the societies and  uncritically adopted them into his Qur’an’. Bauben extracts this Christian view  from the writings of William Montgomery Watt. 
                                       
                                           In order to prove this claim, Christian writers must  supply ample evidence as to whether the societies of Jews and Christians lived  in Makkah at that time, and even if, did Muhammad repeatedly visit them. Bauben  pointing their cites the Arabian peninsula of his day was said to be peopled by  pagan Arabs and heretical Jews and Christians and Jcobities. ‘Nicholas of Cusa’  maintained that ‘Muhammad was nurtured by the Nestorian Christianity who was  excommunicated by the parent church. As per this view the Problem between Islam  and west is the by-product of this bond, based on the policy that the friend of  enemy is enemy. 
                                       
                                           One cannot argue, the Qur’an is the copy Bible Exclusively  for there are similar historical events in both. Really, God revealed all the  books. Whenever the multitudes went astray from righteousness, God send  Prophet, some of whom were given books as well. But all the previous once have  been undergone for interpolations by the priests. Interpolation does not mean  the total transcription, but little amendments. Everybody who read both the  Bible and the Qur’an can realize that the similarity between both is mainly in  historical events. If this alone demands it to be a copy, we ought to say the  books written on world history, or Indian independence struggle are copies,  because the illustration of Roman conquest, America’s discovery, first and  second world wars etc and first independence war, Wagon tragedy (3), Jaliyan  Walabag(4), Seopoy mutiny (5), Caliphate movement (6) etc. are referred in all  these without remarkable differences. There are hundreds of Books in different  languages, but nobody has, so far, argued it and won’t yet. 
                                       
                                           Likewise, had the Qur’an been the copy of the Bible, it  must echo the latter whereas it contradicts of rather crosses it at many  points. The Bible Illustrates the ancient Prophets to be lascivious, cruel,  dishonest.. According to the Bible, Prophet Nooh drank wine and became naked due  to the intoxication, Prophet Ibrahim presented his wife ‘Sarah’ for getting  rewards, Prophet Loath had had sexual intercourse with two daughters, Prophet  Yacob snatched Prophet Hood from Eshev, Prophet Ishaq lied too much, and  Prophet Davood raped a soldier’s wife… But, read the Holy Qur’an in your right  hand. Qur’an presents them to be pure, chaste, and saintly. They are the best  models of moral life, never touched a prohibited body, never tasted  intoxicants, never snatched anything.. Can an unbiased judge call this copying? 
                                       
                                           The Holy Qur’an, which is ascribed to be a dogmatic Xerox  of Jewish, Christian belief, actually, crosses them in sharp words. The  crucification of Christ is crucified in the following verses. 
‘That they said (in boas) “we killed Christ Jesus the son  of Mary, the messenger of Allah;- But they killed him not, nor crucified him.  Only a likeness of that was shown to them. And those who differ therein are  full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge. But only conjecture to follow, for  a surety they killed him not (Holy Qur’an 4:157). 
Criticizing Christians in their having made Christ god,  refusing his words Qur’an says: “Certainly they disbelieve who say: “Allah is  Christ the son of Mary” But said Christ: “O Children of Islrael! Worship Allah,  my lord and your lord. Whoever joins other gods with Allah. Allah will forbid  him the garden, and the fire will be his abode. There will for the wrong-doers  be no one to help” (Holy Qur’an 5:72). 
                                       
                                           Harshly hitting to the principle of trinity, nucleus of  Christianity, Qur’an bursts out: “Surely, disbelievers are those who said: Allah  is the third on the three (in a Trinity).” But there is no Ilah(god)(none who has the right to be worshipped) but One Ilah(God- Allah). And if they cease not  from what they, verily, a painful torment will befall in the disbelievers among  them (Holy Qur’an 5:73). 
                                        Both Jews and Christians say god has son. Gods, goddesses,  and their sons and daughters are appreciable in Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, and  in other Greek mythologies. But, how can sensible brain can- digest them in a  fresh theology? Qur’an crosses this obnoxious belief. 
                                        Further, that he may warn those (who) say, “Allah has  begotten a son”. 
“No knowledge have of such a thing, nor had their fathers,  it is a grievous thing that issues from their months as saying. What they say  is nothing but false hood!” (Holy Qur’an 18:4, 5). 
Patching the loopholes of ambiguities and  misinterpretations, the Qur’an states: “The Jews call ‘Uzair a son of Allah,  and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their  mouth; (in this (they but imitate that the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah’s  curse be on them, for they are deluded away from the truth’ (Holy Qur’an 9:30). 
                                       
                                           (The reward of giving chance to copy is cursing as did  Caliban to Prospero for having taught language!) 
                                        The Holy Qur’an continues: “they take their priests and  their anchorites to be their lords beside Allah. And (they take as their lord)  Christ, the son of Mary; yet these were commanded to worship but one God; there  is no God but he. Praise and glory to him: (far is he) from having partners  they associate (with him) (Holy Qur’an 9:31) 
                                        Now it is sure that, the Qur’an is not the sharp Xerox  copy of the testament! 
                                       
                                           The Qur’an presents the new born Christ speaking in the  cradle, when his mother Mary was scandalized having illicit sexual intercourse.  But now here we see in the Bible such an incident. In the Qur’an there are  numerous things and fact apart from histories, but the other books merely  narrate histories. It is clear that Qur’an is not a copy of them, at least, in  those that are not histories.  
                                        Moreover, many verses of Qur’an are on the form of answers  to the questions asked by his companions contextually. Had it been a narration  of previously stored matters copied from bible. How would it have been occurred  so? So, it is clear that, these are not copies. 
                                       
                                           In the Bible there are a lot of self – contradictory  statements and numerous indications that are paradoxical to the abstract truths  of proven science, the detailed discussion of which is beyond the scope this  booklet. But, Qur’an Challenges the entire Christendom to find out two syllables  that are contradictory each other, or even a usage that is contrary to modern  science! It is clear that, these contradictory things in Bible are not copied,  to the least. 
                                       
                                           All these allegations will have a ground if only the  existence of Jewish and Christian societies is proved in that Arabia  along with the fact that Muhammad chanced to visit them repeatedly. But  historic events prove that there had not been such societies. The story of  Waraqath bin Noufal Sheds light on it. Being detested of idolatry, he went in  search of Ibrahimi traditions leaving Makkah proves that Christians were not  there. Even the antagonistic enemy of Islam Richard bell(Richard bell, The  origin of Islam in its Christian Environment, P. 42) and the catholic  encyclopedia (The new Catholic Encyclopedia vol. pp. 721,2) refuse having any  chance of their existence there. 
                                       
                                           (1) Waraqa bin Naufal : Waraqa bin Naufal bin  Asad bin 'Abdul 'Uzza bin Qusai. Cousin of Khadija, Muhammad's first wife.  
                                       
                                           (2) Bahira : A  Nestorian Christian monk who foretold to the adolescent Muhammad his future  prophetic career. 
                                       
                                           (3) The Wagon  tragedy was the death of a large number of prisoners on 10 November 1921 in  the Malabar region of Kerala state of India. The  prisoners had been taken into custody following the Mappila rebellion against  British Colonial rule and their deaths through apparent negligence discredited  the British Raj and generated sympathy for the Indian independence movement. 
                                        After a  series of events that culminated in violent clashes between police and  protesters, Martial law was introduced and the rebellion mostly crushed. The  British packed 70 prisoners into a railway goods wagon at Tirur railway station  to be sent to the Coimbatore jails. By  the time they reached their destination 61 of the prisoners had died from  suffocation. A monument to this notorious tragedy can be now seen at Tirur. 
                                       
                                           Initially  inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and the national leaders of India, the  Khilaphat movement later turned in to a religious rebellion against Hindus and  there was a widespread and violent uprising against the British colonial rule  of India in which  hundreds of Hindus got killed and thousands forcefully converted to Islam.  After a series of events that culminated in violent clashes between police and  protesters, Martial law was introduced and the rebellion mostly crushed. The  British packed 70 prisoners into a railway goods wagon at Tirur railway station  to be sent to the Coimbatore jails. By  the time they reached their destination 61 of the prisoners had died from  suffocation. A monument to this notorious tragedy can be now seen at Tirur. 
                                       
                                           (4) The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre alternatively known as the Amritsar Massacre was named after the Jallianwala Bagh (Garden) in the northern Indian city of Amritsar where, on  April 13, 1919, 90 British Indian Army soldiers under the command of  Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer opened fire on an unarmed gathering of men,  women and children. The firing lasted for 10 to 15 minutes, until the soldiers  ran out of ammunition. Official British Raj sources placed the fatalities at  379, and with 1100 wounded. Civil Surgeon    Dr. Smith indicated that there were 1,526 casualties.  
                                       
                                           (5) The  Sepoy Mutiny : The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of  sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May, 1857, in the town of  Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in  the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined  to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi  region.  The rebellion posed a considerable threat to Company power in that  region, and it was contained only with the fall of Gwalior on 20  June 1858. The rebellion is also known as India's First  War of Independence, the Great Rebellion, the Indian Mutiny, the Revolt of  1857, the Uprising of 1857 and the Sepoy Mutiny. 
                                           (6) Caliphate movement: A movement  took place in 1920s to defend the Ottoman Caliphate, spread throughout the  British colonial territories in what is now Pakistan.  
                                            
                                      
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