according to what God hath sent down therein. And whoso will not judge by what God hath sent down—such then are the perverse. And to thee We have sent down the Book with truth, confirmatory of previous Scripture and its safeguard." And in Surah X., Yunus, 94 the command is given to Muhammad himself to make the Bible the touchstone by which to judge the Qur'an, for there we read: "And if thou art in doubt as to what We have sent down to thee, inquire of those who are reading the Scriptures before thee." Therefore your principle is contrary to the Qur'an itself. We have also seen that the Qur'an never asserts that the Bible has been corrupted, but acknowledges it to be the Word of God and says that God's Word cannot be corrupted or changed. And if you appeal to reason, your reason must prove to you from what has been already said that the Bible was not corrupted before Muhammad's time, nor during his life, nor has it been corrupted since. Finally, whether or not there are differences in teaching between the Bible and the Qur'an, it is certain that in many points in which you object to the doctrines of the Bible, the Qur'an confirms them, as indeed reason also does ¹.