1. What the Quran Says about the Bible

2. The Clarity of the Qur’an
Qur’an 11:1—This is a Book, whose verses have been made firm and free from imperfection and then they have been expounded in detail.

3. The Clarity of the Qur’an
Qur’an 11:1—This is a Book, whose verses have been made firm and free from imperfection and then they have been expounded in detail.
Qur’an 12:1—These are verses of the clear Book.

4. The Clarity of the Qur’an
Qur’an 11:1—This is a Book, whose verses have been made firm and free from imperfection and then they have been expounded in detail.
Qur’an 12:1—These are verses of the clear Book.
Qur’an 15:1—These are the verses of the Book and of a Quran that makes things clear.

5. The Clarity of the Qur’an
Qur’an 24:46—Certainly We have revealed clear communications  

6. The Clarity of the Qur’an
Qur’an 24:46—Certainly We have revealed clear communications  
Qur’an 26:2—These are the verses of the Book that makes things clear.

7. The Clarity of the Qur’an
Qur’an 24:46—Certainly We have revealed clear communications  
Qur’an 26:2—These are the verses of the Book that makes things clear.
Qur’an 27:1—These are verses of the Qur’an—a book that makes things clear.

8. The Clarity of the Qur’an
Qur’an 28:2—These are verses of the Book that makes things clear.  

9. The Clarity of the Qur’an
Qur’an 28:2—These are verses of the Book that makes things clear.  
Qur’an 57:9—He it is who sends down clear communications upon His servant, that he may bring you forth from utter darkness into light.

10. Prophets to All Nations
Quran 16:36—And certainly We have raised in every nation an apostle (saying): “Serve Allah and shun false gods.”

11. Prophets to All Nations
Quran 32:3—Or do they say: “He has forged it”? Nay! it is the truth from your Lord that you (O Muhammad) may warn a people to whom no warner has come before you, that they may follow the right direction.

12. Prophets to All Nations
Quran 35:24—Surely We have sent you (O Muhammad) with the truth as a bearer of good news and a warner; and there is not a people but a warner has gone among them.

13. Prophets to All Nations
Quran 3:84—Say: “We believe in Allah and in what has been revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the Tribes, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus and the prophets from their Lord; we do not make any distinction between any of them, and to Him do we submit.”

14. Inspiration
Quran 3:3-4—He [Allah] has revealed to you the Book with truth, verifying that which is before it, and He revealed the Torah and the Gospel aforetime, a guidance for mankind, and He revealed the Criterion.

15. Inspiration
Quran 3:3-4—He [Allah] has revealed to you the Book with truth, verifying that which is before it, and He revealed the Torah and the Gospel aforetime, a guidance for mankind, and He revealed the Criterion.

16. Preservation
Quran 3:3-4—He [Allah] has revealed to you the Book with truth, verifying that which is before it [bayna yadayhi], and He revealed the Torah and the Gospel aforetime, a guidance for mankind, and He revealed the Criterion.
bayna yadayhi = “between his/its hands”
“in his/its presence”

17. Muhammad Asad’s Commentary
Most of the commentators are of the opinion that ma bayna yadayhi—lit., “that which is between its hands”—denotes here “the revelations which came before it,” i.e., before the Qur’an. This interpretation is not, however, entirely convincing. Although there is not the least doubt that in this context the pronominal ma refers to earlier revelations, and particularly the Bible (as is evident from the parallel use of the above expression in other Qur’anic passages), the idiomatic phrase ma bayna yadayhi does not, in itself, mean “that which came before it”—i.e., in time—but, rather, “that which lies open before it.” . . .

18. Muhammad Asad’s Commentary
. . . Since, however, the pronoun “it” relates here to the Qur’an, the metaphorical expression “between its hands” or “before it” cannot possibly refer to “knowledge,” but must obviously refer to an objective reality with which the Qur’an is “confronted”: that is, something that was coexistent in time with the revelation of the Qur’an.

19. Preservation
Quran 6:92—And this [the Qur’an] is a blessed Book which We have sent down, confirming that which is bayna yadayhi . . .

20. Preservation
Quran 6:92—And this [the Qur’an] is a blessed Book which We have sent down, confirming that which is bayna yadayhi . . .
Quran 10:37—And this Qur’an is not such as could ever be produced by other than Allah, but it is a confirmation of that which is bayna yadayhi . . .

21. Preservation
Quran 35:31—And that which We have revealed to you of the Book, that is the truth verifying that which is bayna yadayhi . . .

22. Preservation
Quran 35:31—And that which We have revealed to you of the Book, that is the truth verifying that which is bayna yadayhi . . .
Quran 46:30—They said: “O our people! Verily! We have heard a Book [the Qur’an] sent down after Moses, verifying what is bayna yadayhi . . .”

23. Preservation
Quran 7:157—Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered Prophet, whom they find written down with them in the Torah and the Gospel it is they who will prosper.

24. Preservation
Quran 6: —Shall I then seek a judge other than Allah? And He it is Who has revealed to you the Book made plain; and those to whom We have given the Book know that it is revealed by your Lord with truth, therefore you should not be of the disputers. And the word of your Lord has been accomplished truly and justly; there is none who can change His words, and He is the Hearing, the Knowing.

25. Preservation
Quran 18:27—And recite what has been revealed to you of the Book of your Lord, there is none who can alter His words; and you shall not find any refuge besides Him.

26. Preservation
Sunan Abu Dawud 4449— They set out a cushion for the Messenger of Allah and he sat on it. Then he said: “Bring me the Torah.” It was brought, and he took the cushion from beneath him and placed the Torah on it and said: “I believe in you and in the One Who revealed you.” . . .

27. Preservation
Jami at-Tirmidhi 2653—We were with the Prophet when he raised his sight to the sky, then he said, “This is the time when knowledge is to be taken from the people, until what remains of it shall not amount to anything.” So Ziyad bin Labid al-Ansari said: “How will it be taken from us while we recite the Qur’an? By Allah we recite it, and our women and children recite it.” He said: “May you be bereaved of your mother, O Ziyad! I used to consider you among the Fuqaha of the people of Al-Madinah. The Torah and the Gospel are with the Jews and the Christians, but what do they avail of them?”

28. Authority
Quran 5:43—Why do they come to you for judgment (O Muhammad), when they have the Torah before them, wherein is the judgment of Allah? Yet they turn back after that, and these are not the believers.

29. Authority
Quran 5:47—Let the people of the Gospel judge by what Allah hath revealed therein. If any do fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are (no better than) those who rebel.

30. Authority
Quran 5:68—Say: “O People of the Book! You have no ground to stand upon unless you stand fast by the Torah, the Gospel, and all the revelation that has come to you from your Lord.”

31. Authority
Quran 10:94—But if you are in doubt as to what We have revealed to you, ask those who read the Book before you; certainly the truth has come to you from your Lord, therefore you should not be of the disputers.

32. A Book in Arabic
Quran 46:12—And before this [Qur’an] was the Book of Moses as a guide and a mercy. And this Book [the Qur’an] confirms (it) in the Arabic language; to admonish the unjust, and as glad tidings to those who do right.

33. A Book in Arabic
Quran 42:7—And thus have We revealed to you an Arabic Quran, that you may warn the mother city [Mecca] and those around it, and that you may give warning of the day of gathering together wherein is no doubt; a party shall be in the garden and (another) party in the burning fire.

34. A Book in Arabic
Quran 6: —And this [Quran] is a Book We have revealed as a blessing; therefore follow it and guard (against evil) that mercy may be shown to you. Lest you should say: “The Book was only revealed to two parties before us, and we were truly unaware of what they read.” Or lest you should say: “If the Book had been revealed to us, we would certainly have been better guided than they.”

35. Message from Abdullah Saeed
Since the “authorized” scriptures of Jews and Christians remain very much today as they existed at the time of the Prophet, it is difficult to argue that the Qur’anic references to Tawrat and Injil were only to the “pure” Tawrat and Injil as existed at the time of Moses and Jesus, respectively. If the texts have remained more or less as they were in the seventh century CE, the reverence the Qur’an has shown them at the time should be retained even today

36. Message from Abdullah Saeed
. . . Many interpreters of the Qur’an, from Tabari to Razi to Ibn Taymiyya and even Qutb, appear to be inclined to share this view. The wholesale dismissive attitude held by many Muslims in the modern period towards the scriptures of Judaism and Christianity do not seem to have the support of either the Qur’an or the major figures of tafsir.
—Abdullah Saeed, “The Charge of Corruption of Jewish and Christian Scriptures”

37. Objection #1
“The Gospel was a book given to Jesus, not the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).”

38. Objection #1
“The Gospel was a book given to Jesus, not the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John).”
Quran 5:46—And We sent after them in their footsteps Jesus, son of Mary, verifying what was before him of the Torah, and We gave him the Gospel, in which was guidance and light, and verifying what was before it of Torah and a guidance and an admonition for those who guard (against evil).

39. Objection #2
“The Quran does claim that the previous scriptures have been corrupted.”

40. Objection #2
“The Quran does claim that the previous scriptures have been corrupted.”
Quran 2:79—Woe, then, to those who write the book with their hands and then say, “This is from Allah,” so that they may take for it a small price; therefore woe to them for what their hands have written and woe to them for what they earn.

41. Objection #2
Quran 15:89-91—And say: “I am indeed he that warneth openly and without ambiguity,”—(Of just such wrath) as We sent down on those who divided (Scripture into arbitrary parts), (So also on such) as have made Qur'an into shreds (as they please).

42. Objection #2
Quran 15:89-91—And say: “Surely I am the plain warner.” Like as We sent down on the dividers, those who made the Quran into shreds.
Quran 15:89-91—And say, “Verily, I am an obvious warner.” As we sent down (punishment) on the separatists who dismember the Quran.