A book entitled the Injil was revealed to Hadrat Îsâ. But the Jews eradicated the book within eighty years. The Holy Bible which appeared later and is now considered the Christians’ holy book sent by Allâhu ta’âlâ consists of two parts. The “Old Testament” contains the dispensations of Prophets that had appeared before Hadrat Îsâ, particularly the Mosaic dispensation. The “New Testament” includes the four books written by his followers Matthew, Mark, Luke and his apostle John that contain information about the life of Jesus, his deeds and admonitions. The great stringency observed in the recording of the Qur’ân al-kerîm was not observed in the preparation of the Bible. Many wrong thoughts, fables, and silly tales were added to the truth. There is detailed information about the Bible in the Arabic books Risâla-i Samsâmiyya by professor hâji Abdullah Abdi Bey from Manast›r (d. 1303/1885) and in the Turkish book Izâh-ul-Meram, both of which are printed works. Nevertheless, gospels in close proximity to the real Bibles are known to exist today.
The most important of these is The Gospel of Barnabas. Barnabas was a Jew born in Cyprus. His real name was Joseph. He was one of the leading followers of Jesus and possessed an important post among the apostles. His nick-name, Barnabas, means “a person who gives advice and encourages good deeds.” The Christian world knows Barnabas as a great saint who together with Saint Paul was a man who set out to propagate Christianity. The Christians celebrate June 11th as Saint Paul’s day. Barnabas wrote down exactly what he had heard and learned from Hadrat Îsâ. Barnabas’ book and other Bibles were popular and were read during the first three hundred years of Christianity. In the year 325, when the first Nicene (Iznik) Council decided to abolish all the Bibles written in the Hebrew language, Barnabas’ Bible was destroyed too. This was accomplished by officially threatening to kill anyone who kept or read the Bibles other than the four books authorized. The other Bibles were translated into Latin, but Barnabas’ Bible suddenly disappeared. Pope Damasus got a copy of Barnabas’ Bible by chance in the year 383 and kept it in his papal library. Until the year 993 (1585), Barnabas’ Bible remained in that library. In that year Fra Marino, a friend of Pope Sixtus, saw the book there and developed a deep interest in it. (Fra means brother and monk in Italian.) This was because Fra Marino knew that around the year
160 Iraneus (130-200), one of the leading exponents of Christianity, had put forward the belief that “there is only one God, and Jesus is not the son of God.” Iraneus had also said: “Saint Paul wanted to introduce the wrong idea of the Trinity into the Christian creed because he had been influenced by the Roman custom of worshipping many gods.” Fra Marino also knew that Iraneus had referred to Barnabas’ Bible as a proof in his criticism against Saint Paul. For this reason, Fra Marino read Barnabas’ Bible with the utmost attention and translated it into Italian between the years 1585-1590. After changing many hands, this Italian manuscript came into the possession of Cramer, one of the counsellors to the King of Prussia. In 1120 (1713), Cramer presented this valuable manuscript to Prince Eugene de Savoie (1663-1736), who had established a great reputation in Europe for having defeated the Turks at Zanta and for having taken back Hungary and the fortress of Belgrade. After Prince Eugene’s death, Barnabas’ Bible, together with the rest of his private library, was transferred to the Royal Library (Hofbibliothek) in Vienna in 1738.
Two Britons, Mr. and Mrs. Ragg, who first found the Italian translation of Barnabas’ Bible in the Royal library, translated it into English and that translation was printed in Oxford in 1325 (1907). Strange to say, this translation mysteriously disappeared from the market. Only one copy of the translation exists in the British Museum and another one is in the Library of the U.S. Congress in Washington. With great effort, the Qur’anic Council of Pakistan managed to reproduce the English version in 1973. =>
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DOES BARNABAS’ BIBLE INFORM US ABOUT THE ADVENT OF THE LAST PROPHET (’ALAIHI ’S-SALÂM)?
Barnabas’ Bible informs us about the advent of the last Prophet (’alaihi ’s-salâm), six hundred or a thousand years before his coming, and mentions only one God. It rejects Trinity.
European encyclopedias give the following information about Barnabas’ Bible: “A manuscript, introduced as Barnabas’ Bible, but a false book written by an Italian who was converted to Islam in the fifteenth century.”
This explanation is totally wrong, in the light of the following information: Barnabas’ Bible was excommunicated and annihilated in the third century, i.e., three hundred or seven hundred years before Hadrat Muhammad’s (’alaihi ’s-salâm) coming. This means to say that even in those times there were discourses on the advent of another Prophet, which contradicted the concept of three gods and which did not suit the bigotry of fanatical Christians. Moreover, for it to have been written by a person who had been converted to Islam before its beginning is out of the question. On the other hand, the Italian translator Fra Marino was a Catholic monk, and we have no proofs at hand to claim that he had been converted to Islam. Therefore, a motive cannot be found for him to have translated the Bible differently from its original. It should not be forgotten that long ago, that is, between the Christian years 300 and 325, many significant Christian men of religion denied that Hadrat ’Îsâ was the son of Allah and referred to Barnabas’ Bible to prove that ’Îsâ was a man like us. Of them, the most pre-eminent was Luchian, the Bishop of Antioch. And Luchian’s disciple, Arius (270-336), was even more famous. Arius was excommunicated by Alexander, (d. 328), the Bishop of Alexandria, who later became the Patriarch of Istanbul. Upon this, Arius went to his friend Eusabios, the Bishop of Nicene (‹znik). Arius had so many adherents around him that even Constantine, the Emperor of Byzantium, and his sister joined the Arian sect. Also, Honorius, who was the pope during the time of Hadrat Muhammad (’alaihi ’s-salâm), conceded that Hadrat Îsâ was only a human being and that it was wrong to believe in three gods. (Pope Honorius, who died in 630, was officially cursed [anathematized] by the Spiritual Council that assembled in Istanbul in 678, 48 years after his death.) In 1547, L.F.M. Sozzini, influenced by Camillo, a Sicilian priest, appealed to the Frenchman Jean Calvin (1509-1564), who was one of the most outstanding religious authorities of Christendom and the founder of Calvinism, and challenged him, saying: “I do not believe in Trinity.” He also said that he preferred the Arian doctrine and rejected the theory of the “Original Sin.” (This sin is said to be the Prophet Adam’s major sin, and the reason why Hadrat Îsâ had been sent to this world as an atonement for that sin). This is a principle doctrine of Christianity. His cousin, F.P. Sozzini, published a book in 1562, and therein he categorically rejected the deity of Jesus. In 1577, Sozzini moved to the city of Klausenburg, Transylvania, because Sigismund, the leader of that country, was against the doctrine of Trinity. Also, Bishop Francis Davis (1510-1579) of the same country was utterly against Trinity and had established a sect denying Trinity. Because this sect was established in the city of Rocow, Poland, its adherents were called Racovians. They all believed Arius.
We add these historical facts into this small book of ours for the purpose of providing its readers with an awareness that the existing Gospels have lost their credibility in the eyes of many Christian clergy, who acknowledge that the Gospel of Barnabas is the only true Bible. This insurrection seems to have goaded the Popes and their associates into an assiduous activity to liquidate the Gospel of Barnabas. =>
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DESPITE ALL THE EFFORTS TOWARDS FALSIFICATION, IS IT STILL WRITTEN IN VARIOUS BIBLES, WHICH THE CHRISTIANS HAVE TODAY, THAT ANOTHER PROPHET WILL COME AFTER JESUS (’ÎSÂ [’ALAIHI ’S-SALÂM])?
However, despite all the efforts towards falsification, it is still written in various Bibles, which the Christians have today, that another Prophet will come after Jesus (’Îsâ [’alaihi ’s-salâm]). For example, it is written in the 12th and 13th verses of the 16th chapter of John’s Gospel: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now.” “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: …” (John: 16-12, 13) This message in John’s Gospel is similarly repeated in a slightly different manner on the 885th page of the Turkish translation from its Hebrew origin of the Holy Bible, published in Istanbul and printed in Boyajiyan Agop’s printing house in 1303 (1886) by American and English Companies that publish the Bible. It says on that page as follows: “My departure from the world is more beneficial for you, because, he, who will be consoling you, will not come before I go. When he comes he will purge the world of sins, and establish salvation and order. I still have many things to tell you. But you cannot endure them now. However, when he, the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you to the truth. He will not utter his own words, but will tell what is revealed, and he will inform you about the things to happen in the future. He will confirm my way and communicate the same.” The word “he” in the passage above is interpreted in the translations of the Bible as “Ghost” or “Holy Ghost,” whereas its Latin origin writes it as “Paraclet” which means “consoler” in Latin. This means to say that despite all their efforts, they have not been able to erase the statement “after me a consoling person will come” from the Bible. Moreover, it is stated in verses 8 to13 of the 13th chapter of The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians, which is one of the letters written by Paul and accepted as a part of the Holy Bible by Christians: “Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease [e.g. Latin and old Greek]; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away [like that of the Middle ages].” “For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.” “But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.” (1 Cor: 13-8 to 10) This exact excerpt exists on the 944th page of the Turkish book. Kitâb-ı Mukaddes (Holy Bible). Therefore, Christians have to believe that there are reports about the advent of a final Prophet in today’s Bibles, which they believe to be true books =>
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