How do I answer Christians who say the Quran could be corrupted like the Bible?

quran Samir Ahmed zyi has asked how to respond to Christians claiming Quran can be corrupted if we claim the Bible and other religions have been corrupted you know this is an interesting discussion I was I met up this last week with chef Sajjad amazing scholar by the way very underappreciated because he's not so available on social media now right somebody's asking about the LGBTQ education thing I'll come to that okay

so let me just write so let me just I'll come to that just one moment now this question about what is revelation in the past I think this is seriously a misunderstanding a great misunderstanding and a failing on our part as Muslims to be able to convey this concept you see we as Muslims assume that revelation in the past reflected revelation that we have which is Quran that's not true not true at all

we need to undo this kind of misunderstanding now I want you to pay attention here you see the Quran is called or an inner ring now Quran means it's something that is recited a recitation okay so by its nature it's gonna be designed in a way to recite so for example if I pick up a newspaper a newspaper is not designed to be recited it's designed to simply convey information

now the Quran is a it's called or an in the Quran it's you are told that Allah has sent down in and Zell now or Aurra bein la allakum talking in the hope that you may be able to fathom this with your intellect Allah says look the Quran yes it has a message obviously it has a message I'm not talking about that but its nature in which it was revealed

to us as Muslims in this tradition was as a recitation the new recited it has a and that's gonna now have a certain of them it's gonna have a certain structure it's gonna have a certain style I've read them it's gonna have bites nature it's going to be something which will be then memorized you understand now the previous revelation we're assuming were also or an or anak they weren't or anak nobody said they were quranic maybe at

best one could argue was the zaboor the psalms of david was that because it was like hymns and like a kind of like a song but put that aside it's the praise of the lord but put that aside that what was revealed to the israelites the torah was not a book of recitation it was a message it was laws but as a message and then an on a side note I believe I'm

actually inclined to understanding that the Torah which is you know like the Jewish Bible was not was more comprehensive than what was just revealed to Moses so Moses moosa aleihsalaam had some things revealed to him that was not the torah as a whole that was just a small percent or a percentage of the Torah I'm not saying it was a tiny percent it was a significant percent but it wasn't the whole Jewish Bible the whole thing was

datura okay now as in the whole sickness significant books were called the Torah they were not all revealed to Moses they were revealed to the later prophets of when Israel as well that's why in the Quran Allah never says ever not even once that we gave Moses the Torah he never says that he just says we gave Moses revelation but whenever he uses the word torah with bani israeel he never uses it with moses in that verse but rather bunny Sara L were given the Torah not we gave Moses the Torah so

many Muslims I think that's a subtle not that it makes a big difference but I think that's another misunderstanding we have that we think the Torah was to Moses but it's only some of that revelation that came to Moses which constitutes the Torah was to Moses but the rest of it which came to subsequent prophets of Israel including Daniel and others in Ezekiel and all these are the prophets right that all put together was the Torah okay so hence when the Israelites were in Babylon in the Babylonian kind of and they lived in their surroundings and

naturally they took on the laws so they took on the laws of an eye for an eye in a tooth for a tooth why because that was the law of Hammurabi in Babylon and it was the from almost three and a half to four and a half thousand years before so way before Moses and things like this so but this became the law for the Israelites why because it was the law of the surrounding environment they were in and hence Allah says well I got Khattab now feet tall and we wrote in the Torah enough so bid enough say well I know behind that you know that you have the

life for a life and an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth because that is exactly the law of Hammurabi with the Babylonians but this came after Moses so Moses in his law whether you want to say the commandments he received all the it didn't say like a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye this came after but put that aside you see when it came to Jesus what were the Gospels that Jesus received gospel simply mean the good news and even in the Quran when it says the injeel that he had the injeel and

people say this is a it's a kind of derogate like it's it's it's a mutation a mutation if you like of the word in aramaic which means good news so what was the good news that jesus was giving his people he was giving them some good news about you know about about God and about the message and about also the good news that they don't need to be so rigid on certain things to enter the kingdom of God like the way the Jewish law was you know and Jesus says Anna jit took a more subtly Mabini of the I have come to confirm that which

went before me Wally Hillel accompanied harima aleikum and so I may make halal permissible for you some of those things which you think are impermissible but the good news he gave them were the Gospels as in the message just the good news that he gave them this was the gospel the good news so we think like some Muslims think Oh God gave Jesus a book like the Quran and that caranas lost today no it was that good news that was the injeel the gospel