Torah and Injil. By preserving such doctrines the Qur'an acts as a guardian to those
books.
C. Such is your explanation. But if the Qur'an, as we have seen, attested the
Scriptures which in Muhammad's day were extant in the hands of Jews and Christians, and
was constituted their guardian, surely you cannot hold that those Scriptures were at that
very time corrupted or had previously been so. And, if the Qur'an then appealed to certain
passages in the Bible as it then existed in proof of Muhammad's claim to be a prophet,
does not that show that in Muhammad's time the Bible was not corrupt?
10. M. Well then, if the Scriptures were not corrupted before Muhammad's time,
or in his days, they must have been corrupted since that time, for they are
corrupt, as everybody knows, because they used to agree with the Qur'an and no longer do
so. The Qur'an appeals to its agreement with the Bible as one of the proofs of its
inspiration; that is one meaning of several of the verses which you have quoted. This it
would not have done if the Bible had then been what it now is, since it now contradicts
the Qur'an in many important points, and this is the reason why we cannot accept your
Bible 1. Muhammad would not have been commanded