Kitáb-i-Íqán | 86 |
This is one of the instances that have been referred
to. Verily by "perverting" the text is not
meant that which these foolish and abject souls
have fancied, even as some maintain that Jewish
and Christian divines have effaced from the Book
such verses as extol and magnify the countenance
of Muhammad, and instead thereof have inserted
the contrary. How utterly vain and false are these
words! Can a man who believeth in a book, and
deemeth it to be inspired by God, mutilate it?
Moreover, the Pentateuch had been spread over
the surface of the earth, and was not confined
to Mecca and Medina, so that they could privily
corrupt and pervert its text. Nay, rather, by corruption
of the text is meant that in which all Muslim
divines are engaged today, that is the interpretation
of God's holy Book in accordance with their
idle imaginings and vain desires. And as the Jews,
in the time of Muhammad, interpreted those verses
of the Pentateuch, that referred to His Manifestation,