In the wake of the manifest inauthenticity of the Bible, Maulana Rahmatullah goes on to demonstrate by contrast the indisputable and absolute authenticity of the Qur’an and the Prophethood of Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah, may peace and blessing of Allah be upon him.

ii Part 1 - The Books of the Bible

ABOUT THE BOOK AND ITS AUTHOR

This volume marks the beginning of the publication of an important work of scholarship whose translation into English is long overdue. This book internationally recognized as one of the most authoritative and objective studies of the Bible, was originally written in Arabic under the title Izhar-ul-Haq (Truth Revealed) by the distinguished 19th century Indian scholar, Rahmatullah Kairanvi, and appeared in 1864. The book was subsequently translated into Urdu, and then from Urdu into English by Mohammad Wali Raazi. The present publishers are bringing the Wali Raazi translation out as a series in several

installments of which this is the first.

Maulana Rahmatullah Kairanvi wrote the book in response to the Christian offensive against Islam during the British rule in India, and specifically to counter the subversive attack made by the Rev. C. C. P. Fonder. Rev. Fonder had written a book in Urdu entitled Meezanul Haq, the open intention of which was to create doubts into the minds of the Muslims about the authenticity of the

Qur’an and Islam.

Maulana Rahmatullah Kairanvi’s intention in his book was first of all to show that the Bible cannot in any way be considered as a directly revealed book. He does this very effectively by means of his voluminous and authoritative knowledge of the Jewish and Christian scriptures. He demonstrates beyond doubt that the Books of the Old and New Testaments have been altered, almost beyond recognition, from their original forms. The work is even more notable in the light of subsequent Jewish and Christian scholarship and the various discoveries that have since been made in this field which all bear out the

truth of Kairanvi’s thesis.

In the wake of the manifest inauthenticity of the Bible, Maulana Rahmatullah goes on to demonstrate by contrast the indisputable and absolute authenticity of the Qur’an and the Prophethood of Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah,

may peace and blessing of Allah be upon him.

This first instalment which comprises the first chapter of Maulana Rahmatullah’s book takes the Old and New Testament of the Bible and shows convincingly that not a single one of the seventy-five or so books that go to make up the Bible retain their original form and therefore that none of them can

properly be considered as divine revelation.

This work, giving to Jews and Christians a new understanding of their own scriptures and also real comprehension of Muslim concept of Revelation, and to