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today. No one, in any case, can
change it until the end of the world, because it is under the
personal Protection of Allah Almighty.
....So, what about the previous Divine
Books?
....Allah Almighty sent 104 books.
Among them were major ones, such as the Old Testament, the Psalter,
the New Testament, and the Qur'an. And there were also minor ones,
called Suhuf (the Pages).
....The Divine Books are all the
same in the principles or articles that are concerned with matters
of faith that they introduce, but they differ in details.
....Allah Almighty says in this regard:
....". for every one of you did
We appoint a law and a way." (Maida, 48)
....Allah Almighty specified different
rules as well as how they were to be followed for every people
and, therefore, sent different messengers to different people,
starting from Adam, and revealed Divine Books to some among these
messengers. Each Book either introduced new rules or abrogated
some of the old ones introduced by the previous ones.
....The Suhuf, for example, that
was given to Prophet Adam let siblings marry one another, but
the Suhuf that was given to Prophet Seth abrogated this permission.
....The Qur'an is different in this
sense, because it is under Divine Protection; that no other book
will abrogate the rules introduced by the Qur'an. The previous
Books or Suhufs had rules abrogated by the following book or suhuf.
And such books as the Old and New Testament were not under Divine
Protection, and as a result they were distorted and did not remain
as they had been revealed, losing their originality as an intact
divine book.
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