Muslims
consider Jews and Christians to be People of the Book because they believe that the Jewish and
Christian scriptures were inspired by God in much the same way that the Koran was. They honor
the Jewish and Christian prophets and consider them to be important prophets in Islam as well.
For this reason, they believe that the Jews and the Christians are part of the same religious
tradition that Muslims belong to.
Muslims believe that the Jewish prophets
and Jesus were all divinely inspired. They accept that Jews and Christians are monotheistic and
that the God that all three religions worship is the same God. They believe that God first
revealed himself to Abraham. This made Abraham the first Muslim. While Muslims do respect Jews
and Christians as People of the Book, they also believe that these faiths have drifted away from
Gods true word. They believe that the older religions became imperfect and that God revealed
himself (through his angel) to Muhammad to get people back on the right track. They believe
that Muhammad was Gods final prophet and that the revelations given to him are the ultimate
indicators of what God wants.
Muslims, then, believe that Jews and Christians
are People of the Book because they are all part of the same religious tradition with and they
all revere the same God. The scriptures that the Jews and Christians believe in are also holy
to Muslims, but Muslims believe that the revelations given to Muhammad and written down in the
Koran supersede and perfect the Jewish and Christian scriptures.
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