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It is not the four Gospels now received as canonical. It is the single Gospel which, Islam teaches, was revealed to Jesus, and which he taught. Fragments of it survive in the received canonical Gospels and in some others, of which traces survive (e.g., the Gospel of Childhood or the Nativity, the Gospel of St. Barnabas, etc.)." [3]
The Quran is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (Arabic: الله, Allah). [3] The Quran is divided into chapters (), which are then divided into verses ().
This is a list of Islamic texts.The religious texts of Islam include the Quran (the central text), several previous texts (considered by Muslims to be previous revelations from Allah), including the Tawrat revealed to the prophets and messengers amongst the Children of Israel, the Zabur revealed to Dawud and the Injil (the Gospel) revealed to Isa (), and the hadith (deeds and sayings ...
Muslim tradition maintains that the Zabur mentioned in the Quran is the Psalms of Dawud (David in Islam). [ 1 ] The Christian monks and ascetics of pre-Islamic Arabia may be associated in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry with texts called mazmour , which in other contexts may refer to palm leaf documents . [ 2 ]
In Islam, Jesus (Arabic: عِيسَى ٱبْنُ مَرْيَمَ, romanized: ʿĪsā ibn Maryam, lit. 'Jesus, son of Mary') is believed to be the penultimate prophet and messenger of God and the Messiah sent to guide the Children of Israel (Banī Isra'īl) with a book called the Injīl (Evangel or Gospel).
The Scrolls of Abraham (Arabic: صحف إبراهيم, Ṣuḥuf ʾIbrāhīm) [note 1] are a part of the religious scriptures of Islam.These scriptures are believed to have contained the revelations of Abraham received from the God of Abrahamic religions, which were written down by him as well as his scribes and followers.
For example, Abu Bakr al-Razi believed that the Gospels assert God has a thousand names, and authors like Al-Baghawi (d. 1122), Al-Khazin (d. 1340), and Al-Shawkani (d. 1834) believed that the first verse of the Torah was the Islamic phrase known as the Basmala ("In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate"). [31]
The five universally acknowledged messengers in Islam are Abraham, Moses, Noah, Jesus and Muhammad, [9] each believed to have been sent with a scripture. Muslims believe David ( Dāwūd ) received Psalms ( Zabur ) [ 10 ] (cf. Q38:28 ); Jesus ( Īsā ) the Gospel ( Injil ); Muhammad received the Qur'an ; Abraham ( Ibrahim ) the Scrolls of ...