So how do you say the Quran and bible are at one with each other and from the same source when one says the other is altered and authored by man.
In light of everything that is an evidence in Islam.
So what are you a hafiz?
I am saying that any alteration in the text is not crippling to the Gospels. God is capable of protecting His Own word, is He not?
I can only quote small portions of it, so i am hardly a hafiz. Most of my memorization is dedicated to Baha`i Holy writings, not the Qur'an.
Today is a Baha`i Holy Day. We commemorate the martyrdom of the Bab, Whom we believe is the Imam Mahdi described by Muhammad.
"O My Brother! Until thou enter the Egypt of love, thou shalt never come to the Joseph of the Beauty of the Friend; and until, like Jacob, thou forsake thine outward eyes, thou shalt never open the eye of thine inward being; and until thou burn with the fire of love, thou shalt never commune with the Lover of Longing.
A lover feareth nothing and no harm can come nigh him: Thou seest him chill in the fire and dry in the sea.
A lover is he who is chill in hell fire;
A knower is he who is dry in the sea. [1]
[1 Persian mystic poem.]
Love accepteth no existence and wisheth no life: He seeth life in death, and in shame seeketh glory. To merit the madness of love, man must abound in sanity; to merit the bonds of the Friend, he must be full of spirit. Blessed the neck that is caught in His noose, happy the head that falleth on the dust in the pathway of His love. Wherefore, O friend, give up thy self that thou mayest find the Peerless One, pass by this mortal earth that thou mayest seek a home in the nest of heaven. Be as naught, if thou wouldst kindle the fire of being and be fit for the pathway of love."
(Baha'u'llah, The Seven Valleys, p. 9)
Regards,
Scott
