Here the Noble Qur’an teaches us that every messenger who is sent and every scripture that is revealed comes as a confirmation and a reinforcement of what preceded it. The Gospel, therefore, confirms and supports the Torah, while the Qur’an confirms and supports the Gospel, the Torah, and every book that came before it.

There are, after all, timeless rulings that never alter, no matter the land or the circumstance. Other rulings were revealed for specific periods—long or short; when their appointed time ends, they lapse, and the next dispensation arrives with laws more suitable and more merciful for the emerging conditions. Accordingly, in the Qur’an Allah replaced certain rulings found in the Torah and the Gospel, bringing them to a close at the moment most fitting for them and at the duration He had set for them in His knowledge. Whatever rulings they contained that were sound and in accord with the principles of the religious polity, He left unchanged, even calling to them and urging people to uphold them. Whatever had become unsound through distortion, He amended to the extent required; and whatever deserved addition, He augmented beyond what had existed in the earlier laws (1).

Thus Islam acknowledges the earlier dispensations as they were revealed to the former messengers: authentic bodies of law and religions of pure monotheism in essence, attributes, and divinity. Allah is One, unique—“There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.” He alone is worthy of worship; He is the Creator of all things, the All-Knowing, the All-Aware, the Subtle, the Fully Informed—described with every perfection and transcendent above every imperfection.

The Christianity endorsed by the Qur’an is the one that considers the Messiah, peace be upon him, a servant of Allah and a messenger from Him—neither God nor the son of God—and that says