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Are Muslims encouraged to read the Bible and/or the Torah? Why or why not?
Refernce(s) for prohibitting it
Those who may say that it is not allowed for Muslims to read the Torah and the Bible or any other "Holy Book" would refer to a narration which was compiled by ...
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Are Muslims encouraged to read the Bible and/or the Torah? Why or why not?
This answer is based on two lectures I gave a few months ago on what Quran itself says about Injil and Torah.
In my lectures I went over every verse in Quran that refers to Injil, Torah, the book, the ...
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Does Quran 5:45 "an eye for an eye ..." rule apply to muslims?
The verse is elaborating Qisas (retribution), and Qisas has also been explicitly ordained for us:
يا أيها الذين آمنوا كتب عليكم القصاص في القتلى
O you who have believed, prescribed for you is ...
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What does Islam say about Samson?
The Quran and authentic hadith do not mention Samson. So we can't make a decisive claim on the authenticity of his story in the Bible.
The twelve leaders of Israel mentioned in [5:12] could ...
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Why does Islam reject the current versions of the Bible and Torah?
The Torah and Gospel were originally from Allah, may He be exalted, and Muslims are obliged to believe in them, because Allah, may He be exalted, says (interpretation of the meaning):
“Say (O ...
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Meaning of ' بين يديه '
stretch both of your arms in front of you and look between your hands. the area that you see between your hands is what is called "between the hands"
as you said. yes it's an old Arabic idiom that ...
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Is Torah considered Din el Batel (دين البطل)?
دين الباطل means a false or wrong religion.
The Torah is a divine scripture, and can not be called a false religion, rather the Quran says about it:
إنا أنزلنا التوراة فيها هدى ونور يحكم بها النبيون ...
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Why is only Quran protected by Allah and not Bible or Torah?
There are several reasons here a short summary:
1. The universality of the message the qur'an brought
Both Torah and New Testament were revealed as a reminder for Banu Israel. While the qur'an itself ...
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Why is only Quran protected by Allah and not Bible or Torah?
The preservation and protection of Quran was taken by Allah:
Indeed, it is We who brought down the 'Zhikr' (Reminder/Quran) and We will surely preserve it. [15:9]
Torah preservation and protection ...
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Is there any explicit narrations from companions or taba'in that prove that the Torah was textually corrupted?
Yes from Ibn Abbas (RA):
Sahih Al Bukhari Volume 9, Book 93, Number 613:
Ibn 'Abbaas said, "How can you ask the people of the Scriptures about
their Books while you have Allah's Book (the Qur'an)...
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Does Islam believe in the revelation at Sinai
Yes. Islam believes in revelation at Sinai . Allah says in the Quraan verse 15 chapter 79 " Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
( 16 ) When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of ...
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Why was Quran sent down?
Please quote the verse in full.
And the word of your Lord has been fulfilled in truth and in justice. None can alter His words, and He is the Hearing, the Knowing. (Qur'an 6:115)
It is not talking ...
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Why did Allah send more than one book to mankind?
Allah ﷻ informed us in the Qur'an the reason for having multiple books: legislation. The religion of all books and prophets is Islam. The creed in all revealed books is monotheism (Allah is the only ...
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Who is the Lord mentioned in 5:66?
رب in the Quran is used almost exclusively to refer to Allah.
وإن الله ربي وربكم فاعبدوه هذا صراط مستقيم
[Jesus said], "And indeed, Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. That is a ...
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Which muslim scholars say abrogation is not unique to Quran?
I am not sure if its upto scholarly opinion.
Abrogation is when one revealed command is replaced by another, so the first one is no longer acted upon (it was meant for a specific period to address a ...
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Does Qur'an 5:48 imply that Allah wants Jews to follow the Torah and Christians to follow the Gospel, instead of the Qur'an?
Does Qur'an 5:48 imply that Allah wants Jews to follow the Torah and Christians to follow the Gospel ...
Yes.
... instead of the Qur'an?
No.
Al-Ma'idah 5:44 clearly stipulates that Allah is ...
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To what extent have the Psalms, Torah, Prophets and Gospel been corrupted?
I'm quite not sure if both of your basic questions have not yet been answered on the site. Therefore I'll refer in my answer to some other posts where I'm aware of at least partial answers!
To what ...
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How to understand a narration that says Muhammad (Sallallahu'alaihiwassalam) believed in the Torah?
The hadith has been classed as Daeef by some such as al-Arnaa’oot in his grading of Sunan Abu Dawud and has been classed as Hasan by others such as by al-Albani in Irwa’ al-Ghaleel.
Within its chain, ...
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The Torah and the Jews
There is another avenue of proving that the original Torah doesn't exist. Simply, showing where Allah corrects the current Bible and Gospel.
In the Bible, Eve was tempted by the serpent and ate the ...
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Is Torah considered Din el Batel (دين البطل)?
I'd like to add the following rather short remarks to the existing posts (as they already include some details).
دين البَطَل
Doesn't make any sense in Arabic as it literally means:
religion the ...
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Was Torah the first complete shariah?
Verily, We did send down the Taurat (Torah) [to Musa (Moses)], therein was guidance and light, by which the Prophets, who submitted themselves to Allah's Will, judged the Jews. And the rabbis and the ...
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Where in Torah the change of Muslims' Qibla is mentioned?
It is not mentioned explicitly in the Torah or Tanakh today or at the time of Ibn Kathir's tafsir (which is what your article is).
He only means the Jews of Madinah had writings with them that ...
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Why is only Quran protected by Allah and not Bible or Torah?
I will offer a different answer to this question:
(5:44)
We have revealed the Torah, wherein is guidance and light. The submissive prophets ruled the Jews according to it, so did the rabbis and the ...
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Is Torah considered Din el Batel (دين البطل)?
Bismillah Hir Rahmaan Nir Raheem
Hello,
I hope you are doing well. Thank you for asking your question. I am assuming you meant to say religion of falsehood. However, the Torah in its original form is ...
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The Torah and the Jews
Here are words of Allah in Torah in Hebrew bible.
Word of God Elohim is derived from name of Allah אלח in ancient hebrew lexicon
Compressive hebrew etymological dictionary state that etmyos means &...
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What does the Quran teach, if anything, about the covenant in Genesis 17?
Starting on a tangent but did you know that in Islam there is a Prophet named Zakariyah (aka Priest Zechariah in Bible) who is the father of Prophet Yahya (aka John the Baptist in Bible).
Coming back ...
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Are Muslims encouraged to read the Bible and/or the Torah? Why or why not?
If I understand correctly, Islam accepts several holy books as authored by Allah. Obviously, Muslims are encouraged to read the Quran, but among these books are the Bible (or Gospel) and the Torah, ...
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Who are the people of zaboor?
They are the same as people of the tawrath and Enjeel. As Zaboor was revealed to the Prophet David/Dawod (Peace be upon him) as we can read in different Verses of the Qur'an:
...and to David We ...
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Do we know if Allah prohibited all forms of riba with the children of Israel?
First of all, we can't say anything about torah or injil in their current state, how can we say for sure this is averse from God and this is not, if it was possible, some christian or jew would have ...
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