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The Quran’s Double Standard

How Islam Both Affirms and Undermines the Bible

Islam’s scriptural stance is a masterclass in contradiction. On one hand, the Quran declares that the Torah and Gospel were revealed by God, perfect and true. On the other, it claims these same scriptures have been corrupted, twisted, and rendered unreliable. This isn’t a minor theological footnote—it’s a gaping inconsistency that Islamic scholars have been twisting themselves into knots to explain for over a thousand years.

Let’s rip off the sugarcoating and dig into the raw evidence.

The Quran’s Affirmation of Biblical Authority

The Quran repeatedly states that the Torah and Gospel were genuine revelations:

Quran 3:3 – “He has revealed the Book to you [Muhammad] with truth, confirming what came before it, and He revealed the Torah and the Gospel.”
Quran 5:44 – “Indeed, We sent down the Torah, in which was guidance and light…”
Quran 5:46 – “We sent after them Jesus, son of Mary, confirming what was before him in the Torah. And We gave him the Gospel, in which was guidance and light…”

This isn’t half-hearted or veiled: the Quran flat-out says these books were divine, trustworthy, and part of the same chain of revelation.

The Corruption Narrative: A Contradictory Denial

Then comes the bait-and-switch: the Quran and later Islamic tradition claim the Jews and Christians messed it all up. But the verses themselves don’t even agree on how—or if—it actually happened.

Quran 2:79 – Partial Condemnation, Not Wholesale Falsification

“Woe to those who write the Book with their hands and then say, ‘This is from Allah.’”
This isn’t an explicit charge that the entire Bible was rewritten. It’s a condemnation of individuals forging parts of scripture for personal gain—hardly a sweeping rejection of everything.

Quran 5:13 – Distorting Meaning, Not Words

“They distort words from their [right] places…”
Note the wording: distort, not rewrite. Classical exegetes like al-Tabari said this referred to misinterpretation, not textual corruption. But modern Muslim apologists ignore the nuance, turning it into an all-out accusation of textual forgery.

Hadith Confusion: Flip-Flopping on Scripture

The hadith literature is just as messy. Some hadith show respect for the Bible; others treat it like a ticking time bomb.

Sahih Bukhari 7541 – A Muslim Companion reads the Torah to Muhammad, who doesn’t bat an eyelid. No rebuke, no “that’s corrupted”—clear acceptance, at least in that moment.
Sunan Abu Dawud 4449 – Muhammad warns Muslims not to ask Jews or Christians about scripture because of possible distortions. Direct contradiction to earlier openness.

Even in the most “authoritative” sources, there’s no consistency. One day the Torah is truth; the next, it’s a threat.

Major Verses That Expose the Paradox

Quran 5:43 – Why Come to Muhammad?

“Why do they come to you for judgment when they have the Torah, in which is Allah’s judgment?”
This verse assumes the Torah is still valid. If it was truly corrupted, why would Allah send Jews back to it? This is one of the Quran’s biggest internal contradictions, exposing the hollow nature of the distortion claim.

Quran 10:94 – Ask the People of the Book

“So if you are in doubt, [Muhammad], ask those who have been reading the Scripture before you.”
This order only makes sense if the previous scriptures still contained reliable truth. Telling Muhammad to consult corrupted texts is nonsense—unless those texts weren’t corrupted.

Islamic Scholarship: Walking a Tightrope

The confusion doesn’t stop with scripture—it infects the entire Islamic scholarly tradition.

Ibn Taymiyyah (13th century) – He admitted the Bible contained some historical truth but was unreliable for theology. He didn’t solve the problem; he just rebranded it as “useful but suspicious.”
Al-Azhar Fatwa (20th century) – Muslims may read the Bible for interfaith dialogue, but not for doctrine. Another desperate hedge—acknowledging the Bible’s relevance while dismissing its core message.

Historical Reality: No Evidence of Biblical Corruption

Muslim apologists lean hard on the idea that the Bible was changed. But the manuscript record says otherwise:

✅ Dead Sea Scrolls (2nd century BCE–1st century CE) – Old Testament texts virtually identical to the Masoretic Hebrew Bible used today.
✅ Early New Testament manuscripts (2nd–4th centuries CE) – They match the modern New Testament in all essential doctrines.
✅ No historical testimony—Jewish, Christian, or pagan—claiming the Bible was swapped out or rewritten.

Islam’s corruption charge has no historical leg to stand on. It’s an apologetic band-aid to patch over the theological rift.

Conclusion: Islam’s Pick-and-Choose Revelation Game

The Quran wants it both ways:
🔹 It wants to claim divine continuity by affirming the Torah and Gospel.
🔹 But it also wants to be the final authority, so it has to tear them down.

This isn’t a side issue. It’s a foundational contradiction at the heart of Islam. The Quran’s own verses, the hadith, and the fatwas of leading scholars all trip over themselves trying to balance respect for the Bible’s origins with rejection of its message.

The end result? A religion that can’t make up its mind about the very scriptures it claims to confirm.

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Islam’s “double standard revelation” is not just an academic quirk—it’s a gaping hole in the entire Islamic truth claim.