Would You Follow a Religion with Corrupted Scriptures?

📌 Introduction

Imagine a religion claiming its scriptures came directly from God — pure, perfect, and divine.
Now imagine that the same religion also claims that three out of its four major scriptures were corrupted, lost, or altered by humans.
Would you still follow it?

This question isn’t hypothetical. It cuts to the heart of Islamic theology, and when we look closely, we find a contradiction that cannot logically be resolved.

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📜 Islam’s Four Scriptures

According to Islam, Allah sent down four major revelations:
1️⃣ Torah (Tawrat) to Moses (Musa)
2️⃣ Psalms (Zaboor) to David (Dawud)
3️⃣ Gospel (Injil) to Jesus (Isa)
4️⃣ Qur’an to Muhammad

All four are Islamic scriptures in the true sense:

• They came directly from Allah.

• They were given to Islamic prophets (who Muslims believe were all Muslims in the sense of submission to Allah).

• They form part of what Muslims call wahy (divine revelation).

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⚖ The Qur’an’s Claim: Allah’s Words Cannot Be Changed

The Qur’an repeatedly and emphatically declares:

“None can change His words.”
Qur’an 6:115

“Recite what has been revealed to you from the Book of your Lord; none can change His words.”
Qur’an 18:27

“No change is there in the words of Allah.”
Qur’an 10:64

These verses are clear, unconditional, and absolute: Allah’s words cannot be changed, corrupted, or lost.

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📖 The Qur’an Also Affirms the Previous Scriptures

The Qur’an doesn’t dismiss the earlier revelations. In fact, it explicitly confirms them as divine:

“Indeed, We sent down the Torah, in which was guidance and light…”
Qur’an 5:44

“And We sent, following in their footsteps, Jesus, the son of Mary, confirming that which came before him in the Torah; and We gave him the Gospel, in which was guidance and light…”
Qur’an 5:46

And in Qur’an 3:3:

“He has sent down upon you the Book in truth, confirming what was before it. And He revealed the Torah and the Gospel.”

These scriptures are explicitly described as Allah’s words containing “guidance and light,” and Jesus is said to have confirmed the Torah that was between his hands (i.e., the Torah existing at his time).

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🧩 But Islamic Doctrine Claims Corruption (Tahrif)

Despite this, Muslims claim:

• Jews and Christians corrupted or altered these scriptures over time.

• The Torah, Psalms, and Gospel we have today are no longer in their original, pure form.

• Only the Qur’an remains perfectly preserved.

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🧠 The Logical Contradiction

This claim leads to an unavoidable dilemma:

Logical syllogism:

1️⃣ The Qur’an says Allah’s words cannot be changed.
2️⃣ The Torah, Psalms, and Gospel are Allah’s words (revealed to His prophets).
3️⃣ Islamic doctrine says these scriptures were changed, corrupted, or lost.

Conclusion:
Allah’s words were changed (contradicting Qur’an).
Or, Allah’s words cannot be changed (contradicting Islamic doctrine of corruption).

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⚡ Both cannot be true:

• If they are Allah’s words → then they cannot be corrupted.

• If they were corrupted → then Allah’s words were changed, contradicting the Qur’an.

This is a real, internal contradiction in Islamic theology.

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📌 And there’s more:

• Jesus, who Islam calls a Muslim prophet, is said to have confirmed the Torah that existed at his time.

• If the Torah was already corrupted, then Jesus confirmed a corrupted text — impossible for a true prophet.

• If the Torah was still pure in Jesus’ time, then Jews at that time had the true Torah — contradicting the claim of earlier corruption.

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🧱 Where Are the Uncorrupted Originals?

Islam claims these scriptures were lost or corrupted under human custody.
But since they were originally Islamic scriptures given to Allah’s own prophets, this raises unavoidable questions:

• Why didn’t Allah protect them?

• Why is there no trace of the uncorrupted originals?

• Why blame later Jews and Christians, when the corruption must logically have happened under the watch of Allah’s prophets and the first believing communities?

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🧪 What Does the Historical Evidence Show?

• The Dead Sea Scrolls (for the Torah) and early Gospel manuscripts show remarkable stability and textual preservation.

• There is no historical evidence that the original, pure “Islamic Torah” or “Islamic Gospel” ever existed in a form radically different from what Jews and Christians have today.

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✅ Summary: Would You Follow a Religion with Corrupted Scriptures?

• Islam itself claims its own previous scriptures — the Torah, Psalms, and Gospel — were originally Allah’s words.

• It also claims these were corrupted, lost, or changed.

• The Qur’an says Allah’s words cannot be changed.

• Historical evidence shows no such corruption.

Islam can’t consistently say:

• These were Allah’s words (unchangeable)

• And also say: these words were changed.

This contradiction lies at the very heart of Islamic theology — and cannot be logically resolved.

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✏ Conclusion

If a religion tells you:

• “God sent four scriptures,”

• “Three were corrupted or lost,”

• “But trust us, the last one isn’t” —

You have every reason to stop and ask:

“Why should I follow a religion whose own divine scriptures — entrusted to God’s own prophets — could be lost or changed?”

It’s a question worth asking, and it goes to the very foundation of truth.