Streams Of Truth

Reading the Qur’an, I came to the following question. Was the Torah at the time of Jesus trustworthy or not? After reviewing the Qur’an, the interpretations of some verses as well as understanding the Arabic grammar, I came to the following conclusion:                                              The Torah at the time of Jesus was trustworthy .   I present in this articles a small study to sustain this claim.                         My invitation to anyone is to then review the claim of Islam, can you find in today’s Bible without a shade of doubt prophecies concerning the Prophet of Islam?                                                              ...

“Believe in that which I sent down in confirmation of what is with you, O Jews. And what is with them is the Torah and the Evangel” In a previous post (1) I had shown how the Sira (biography of the prophet) by Ibn Ishaq demonstrated that the prophet of Islam regarded the Torah and the Gospel as trustworthy . In this blog site you will also find confirmation of this from the Hadith (2). In order to assure that my interpretations are not biased from my background, I’ve initiated efforts to discuss and present what the understanding of respected classic Muslim Sunni scholars. After reviewing the opinions attributed to Ibn Abbas (3), I plan to review the commentary of Tabari. Who is Al Tabari? Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī    (born c. 839, Āmol, Ṭabaristān [Iran]—died 923, Baghdad, Iraq), (was a) Muslim scholar, author of enormous compendiums of early Islamic history and Qurʾānic exegesis, who made a distinct contribution to the consolidation of Sunni though...