The Choice: Islam and Christianity

(National Geographic (Little) Kids) #1
Is The Bible God’s Word? 143

a door to door campaign, and being invited in by the proverbially
hospitable Muslim, I thought of how the merciless missionary
munched the samoosas and punched the wind out of the Muslim
with snide remarks against his beliefs.


Determined to bring home to the Muslims their right to defend
themselves and to arm them with enough knowledge to counter
the hot-gospeller, the door-to-door peddler of Christianity and the
shameless insulter of Islam and its Holy Apostle. 1 undertook to
deliver lectures to show the Muslim masses that they had nothing
to fear from the assaults of the Christians.
My lectures were also an invitation to the Christians to witness
the truth of Islam and the fabrications which had penetrated the
true teachings of Jesus (P.B.U.H.).


ATTACK NOT NEW
Christian missionaries in the past hundred years and more have
challenged Muslims on many aspects and quite a number of these
challenges have, to my knowledge, gone unanswered or have been
partly answered. Perhaps by the will of Allah my contribution in
this field can also be answers or part-answers to the challenges of
the detractors of Islam. It is of paramount importance that
we do not lose by default.
One such challenge comes to mind viz. Geo G. Harris, the author
of “ How to lead Muslims to Christ”. This missionary who tried
to convert the Muslims of China says in the usual arrogant and
condescending manner of the Westerner on page 19 under the
heading - “ THE THEORY OR CHARGE OF CORRUPTION.”
‘‘WE NOW COME TO THE MOST SERIOUS CHARGE BY THE
MOSLEM WORLD, AGAINST OUR CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES.
THERE ARE THREE ASPECTS OF THIS CHARGE.


  1. That the Christian scriptures have been so changed and altered
    that they bear little, if any, resemblance to the glorious Injil
    praised in the Qur'an. This can be answered by the asking of
    one of the following questions: Wherein have these been so
    changed or altered? Can you obtain a copy of a true Injil and

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