All historians unanimously agree that the noble Prophet of...

All historians unanimously agree that the noble Prophet of Islam was illiterate and prior to his appointment at forty, had not been educated. Given this, the Muslim Prophet has recounted the accounts of a large number of the preceding prophets. Of course, the narration of other prophets’ accounts per se is not a miracle. But these narratives have been incorporated by the Jewish and Christian Scriptures (the Old and New Testaments).

Therefore, we can compare this section of Qur’an (the narratives of the previous prophets) with its counterpart in the Old and New Testaments and thus establish the heavenly nature of the Holy Qur’an.

Because having studied the current Old and New Testaments[^1], we realize that their writers have presented the history of these prophets, who were prominent men and devout instructors and their accounts must be instructive, in the form of superstitious myths and have so distorted facts that in these books prophets have been depicted as inferior to ordinary men.

But when we return to Qur’an, the accounts of these virtuous prophets have been presented in a way that they bear an educational and moral point for everyone. By the same token, one cannot claim that the prophet of Islam has borrowed the contents of the Holy Qur’an from the Scriptures of the Jews and Christians to present them in the form of the Holy Qur’an.

When the Holy Qur’an recounts the story of a prophet, it also refers to a number of moral facts and points and relates their accounts without any distortion or superfluous superstitions.

If the prophet’s source for Qur’an were not from Revelation, then undoubtedly, in recounting these stories, he would suffer from the same superstitious distortion that befell the writers of the Scriptures of the Jews and Christians and Arab storytellers and consequently the narratives of the prophets would be marred by superstitions and untruths. You can ascertain this by comparing the accounts of Adam, Eve, Abraham and Jesus in Qur’an and the Bible.

This cursory comparison will demonstrate that the Prophet of Islam has come up with these facts through divine revelation. These stories have been so blatantly distorted in the Old and New Testaments that pen is ashamed of ascribing such stories to the divine instructors whereas the same accounts have turned up in Qur’an with the best of themes bearing a series of moral and educational facts.