Do Muslims Believe in the Bible as It Exists Today? Preserved or Corrupted? | Salih Aal Al-Shaykh

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📌 This video is based the explanation of Shaykh Salih Aal al-Shaykh of the book "Faḍl al-Islām" (The Excellence of Islam) by Imam Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahaab, clarifying the Quranic position on the preservation of the previous scriptures and the reality of the Torah and Gospel as they exist today. He explains the obligation to follow the final Messenger ﷺ and suffice with the Quran, and that referring the Torah and Gospel is prohibited except for qualified scholars engaged in scholarly refutation. - The Shaykh establishes that the previous scriptures are both abrogated and distorted, in wording and meaning. 👉 The lecture outlines the scholarly positions on distortion, affirms the strongest view held by Ahl al Sunnah, and clarifies that Islamic belief in the previous scriptures refers only to what Allah originally revealed to Musa ﷺ and Isa ﷺ, not the altered texts in circulation today. - It also refutes common claims raised against the Islamic position using principles grounded in the Quran and the understanding of the Salaf. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 Key Takeaways (Core Points) - Following the Prophet ﷺ and sufficing with the Quran is obligatory. - Consulting the Torah and Gospel is prohibited for the general public, with an exception only for qualified scholars engaged in scholarly refutation. - The Torah and Gospel are abrogated by the Quran and the final message. - Distortion occurred in both the wording and meanings of the Torah and Gospel. - The strongest scholarly position affirms both textual alteration and interpretive distortion. - Belief in previous scriptures refers only to what Allah originally revealed, not the altered texts in circulation today. 🛡️ Refutation of Common Claims - Preservation cannot be claimed without the original revealed texts. - Conflicting translations and editions prove alteration, not reliability. - The absence of an unbroken chain of transmission eliminates textual certainty. - The Quran affirms original revelation, not the scriptures as they exist today. - Partial truth remaining does not constitute preservation. - The Quran’s preservation directly exposes the failure of earlier communities to safeguard revelation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Official Source (Arabic): (34:23 - 46:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3jpquuYbbA&t=11s 📘 PDF: Start from the last paragraph on pages 215–222. https://archive.org/details/shar7-fadhl-al-islam-salih-al-sheikh/page/214/mode/2up?q=%22%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7+%D9%86%D9%88%D9%85%D9%86+%D8%A8%D9%87%22 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #islam #muslim #islamic #sunnah #hadiths #quranrecitation #allah #dua #islamicreminders #islamicknowledge #islamicteachings #learnislam #islamiccontent #islamiclifestyle #halalliving #faithinallah #quranverses #islamicmotivation #islamicvideos #tawhid #aqidah #shirk #kufr #takfir #salihalfawzan #creed #islamiccreed #majorShirk #islamicbeliefs #rulingbytheoutward #murjiah #aqeedah #BooksOfAllah #Torah #Gospel #Injeel #OldTestament #NewTestament #PreservationOfRevelation #DistortionOfScripture #Tahrif #Quran #IslamicTheology #Ilm #SeekingKnowledge #RefutingFalsehood #DefendingIslam #IslamicDawah #Haqq #Batıl