The Ruling of obtaining a Bible

 

Am I entitled to obtain a copy from the Bible to know the book Allah sent to Jesus? And is the existing Bible aurate for I heard that the true one did sink in the Euphrates?

 

Praise be to
Allaah.

It is nopt permitted to have any of the
books prior to Islam because of the following :

-        
Anything helpful in them Allah illustrated in the Qur’an.

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The Qur’an contains wha makes one in no need of such books.

Allah, Subhanahu Wata’ala,
says, “It is He who has sent down the Book ( the Qur’an ) to you ( Mohammad
) in truth, confirming wha came before it. “ therefore, everything useful
in these Books is mentioned in the Qur’an.

With regard to the second
qustion, the words sent by Allah to Jesus and of which we may benefit
are already in the Qur’an. Furthemore, the existing Bible is distorted,
for there are four different scripts, each of which is violating the
others. But seekers of knowledge who have the sight of differentiate
between truth and wrong can study these books to refute what evil they
include. 

Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen may Allaah have
mercy on him.