الكاتب: Zulfiqar Ali Shah

The Bible and the Quran are the Scriptures of three Semitic religions. The Bible has been held by many Jews and Christians as the inerrant Word of God. The modem scholarship has shown the illogicity of such a claim. Not all of the modem Jews accept the divine origin and authority of the Hebrew Bible. Christendom is even more divided over the divine origin and authority of their Scripture. Many modem scholars have highlighted the human elements in the Bible. The lengthy processes of canonization and compilation which resulted in the Bible are indicative of this finite human aspect. The Quran was canonized from its inception. The careful preservation of the QurInic text started with the faith's founder and compilation of the entire text into a written volume was completed within a few years from his death. The Qur5n has been accepted as the Word of God verbatim by Muslims of all ages and times. The unity, integrity, and universality of the Qur5nic text is an historical fact recognized even by the modem non-Muslim scholarship.