God's Books (Scriptures)
Muslims are obligated to believe in all inspired Books that God has sent down to humanity through
His Prophets.
Every single Prophet received Inspiration.
Some of the Inspiration was compiled and written down to larger Books.
Inspiration or Revelation or Wahyi in Arabic, linguistically means inspiration, suggestion,
commandment, revelation, something revealed or written, or the idea inspired or revealed.
Inspiration or Revelation comes to God’s Human Prophets either directly or through
an intermediary of the Angel Gabriel who brings down the revelation.
Every religion which believes in God believes in Revelation.
God’s Books contain commandments, prohibitions, exhortations, stories, parables, reminders,
descriptions of Himself, His Attributes, description of the afterlife, Heaven, and Hell, the purpose
of life, the creation of the Universe, Worship, Piety, morals, manners, the importance of
being good to one’s parents, and much more.
These Books seek to guide man through every aspect of life.
God’s Revelations’ acts as a guide, an instructional manual on how one’s life should
be lived.
God, in a great manifestation of His mercy, compassion, and love, sent Books to teach,
guide, explain His decrees, and reveal Himself to humanity.
"...Your Lord is the possessor of vast mercy..."
(Qur’an 6:147)
Islam makes it an article of faith to believe in all of God’s Books, in their original,
pure form.
Say, [O believers], "We have believed in Allah and what has been revealed to us and what
has been revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the Descendants and what
was given to Moses and Jesus and what was given to the prophets from their Lord.
We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims [in submission] to Him"
(Quran 2:136)
Unfortunately, the current modern day available Torah, Psalms and Bible has been altered by
men, and contain mixes of man-made ideas and innovations and is corrupt at its current
state.
Whereas these Books still contain some remaining traces of the truth, they are not in their
original revealed form.
God warns in his final Book:
"So woe to those who write the "scripture" with their own hands, then say, "This is from
Allah," in order to exchange it for a small price.
Woe to them for what their hands have written and woe to them for what they earn."
(Quran 2:79)
The Quran, on the other hand, is the only scripture in existence today in its original
language and words.
Not one letter of the Quran has been changed since its revelation.
When previous Holy Scriptures got altered and corrupted by human hand, God in his Mercy
sent new messengers and then finally revealed his last and final Book the Holy Qur’an
which God has taken it upon Himself to safeguard & protect his last and final Revelation to
mankind from manmade alterations or any form of corruption.
The Quran is in a language that still exists today, No other scripture exists today in
its original language that it was revealed in.
The Holy Quran is meant for all people till the end of time.
The only Book that has been preserved in its pure, original revealed form is the Holy Quran.
Never has the Quran been altered or modified by human hand.
Everything it contains is truth, containing no falseness and will remain so for eternity.
Muslims believe the Quran has abrogated all previous scriptures before it meaning it cancels
the rulings of the previous scriptures and renders them inapplicable going forward since
the previous scriptures were meant for the previous nations and not meant for us.
God in his Infinite wisdom, did not feel it fit to bring down the Holy Quran at the time
because the Message would not have been able to be grasped.
As the Creator of the World and everything it contains, God knows who is capable of understanding
and who wouldn’t.
Even though different revelations came down to different Prophets and nations, the general
Message had always been the same, ‘to worship God Alone and to follow his Commandments.’
The Quran mentions the following Books by name:
Torah was sent with the Prophet Moses (Musa in Arabic) to the children of Israel
Psalms (Zabur in Arabic) was sent w/ Prophet David (Dawud in Arabic) to the children of
Israel Gospel (Injeel in Arabic) was sent with Prophet
Jesus (Isa in Arabic) to the children of Israel The Scripture Revealed to Prophet Ibrahim
Qur'an was sent with Prophet Muhammad to our nation, which is the last nation, to all of
mankind.
It is the Final Revelation to humanity; no other scripture will be revealed after it.