Will you answer the claims that the stories of the prophets are taken from other divine books?

Dear Brother / Sister,

In fact, that any news or beauty existing in a nation or culture also exists in one of the true religions does not show that this religion is influenced by that culture, but that its source is divine revelation. Over time, its relation with divine revelation may have been forgotten and it may have been regarded as the culture of that nation because Allah sent thousands of prophets to humanity. The first man is also the first prophet. In this respect, the fact that the news given by religions exists also in another culture shows that its origin is based on divine revelation. However, over time, the revelation may have been forgotten and it may have been regarded to belong to a culture or a person.

As for your question, since other heavenly books are also the books of Allah, it is quite natural that the same stories exist in all of them. It is not very difficult for those who do not believe in the Quran to regard them as excerpts.

However, another characteristic of the Quran is being muhaymin. It means to control, to supervise another. We also learn from the Quran that the Quran is a muhaymin/controller for the previous heavenly books:

“And We have sent down to you the previous books, both confirming and controlling, this book as the truth.” (al-Maida, 5/48)

Indeed, when the Quran deals with the same stories existing in the Bible, it both confirms and corrects them. It is normal for those who claim that the stories in the Bible were also borrowed from previous mythological epics and who cannot think of a deity who knows the past and the future to express those facts in divine books to slander the Quran too. Anyone with intelligence and conscience who does not miss this point will have no difficulty in understanding that this claim of excerpt is a product of imagination.

Thus, the fact that some of the stories in the Quran also exist in other divine books shows that they are related with the same divine source, not excerpts. If what is mentioned in other divine books is in accordance with the story in the Quran, it means that the Quran confirms it. If it is contrary, it means that the Quran corrects it.

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