Christians accept Isa 'alaihis-salam' as [Allah forbid] God, and the Apostles and Paul as a Prophet each. They accept the epistles and letters written by them as heavenly books and epistles revealed through wahy. Therefore, these epistles come right after the four Gospels in the New Testament of the Holy Bible.

A close look at these epistles will show that, though the epistles are said to be the complementaries and supplementaries of the four Gospels, there are so many inconsistencies within themselves and so many contradictions between them and the four Gospels that an attempt to explain them one by one would end up in huge volumes of books larger than the Holy Bible itself.

Here are some examples:

Rahmatullah Effendi's account of the event of Paul's conversion in his book Iz-har-ul-haq is as follows:

There are many paradoxes on how Paul believed in the ninth, twenty-second and twenty-third chapters of the Book of Acts (of the Apostles). I explained them in ten paragraphs in my book titled Izalat-ush-shuqaq. But in this book of mine I shall mention only three of them:

1 - In the seventh verse of the ninth chapter of the Book of Acts (of the Apostles): "The men who were traveling with them were tongue-tied. They heard the voice. But they did not see anyone."

In the ninth verse of the twenty-second chapter, on the other hand: "Those who were with me saw the halo actually. But they did not hear the voice speaking to me."

And in the twenty-sixth chapter the question whether the voice was heard or not is passed over without any mention. The opposition between these three expressions is apparent.

2 - In the sixth verse of the ninth chapter of the same book: "The Lord said unto him: Get up and enter the town. You shall be told what you are to do."

In the ninth verse of the twenty-second chapter: "The Lord said unto me: Get up and go to Damascus. You shall be told what you are to do there."

On the other hand, in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth verses of the twenty-sixth chapter: "Get up and stand. For I have shown myself to you to make you my servant and a witness of the things that you see and the things that I shall show you. I shall save you from the tribes and nations upon whom I have sent you. This is in order that you open their eyes and convert them from the dark to the light, from the devil's molestation to God, and they believe me and attain redemption and a share of the blessings." The conclusion to be drawn from these is that according to the verses in the ninth and twenty-second chapters he is told that what he will do will be explained to him after arriving in the town. And according to the verses in the twenty-sixth chapter, at the place where he hears the voice he is told what he is to do.

3 - In the fourteenth verse of the twenty-sixth chapter: "We all fell down when the hale appeared." However, according to the seventh verse of the ninth chapter those who are with him get tongue-tied, they cannot talk. And in the twenty-second chapter, no mention is made concerning tongue-tiedness.

It is also written in Izhar-ul-haq that the contradictions in the other chapters of the Book of Acts (of the Apostles) are even worse.

It is written in the first and later verses of the tenth chapter of the first epistle written by Paul to Corinthians: "Our ancestors were underneath the cloud. They crossed the sea. They were baptized by Moses in the cloud and in the sea. Don't you be pagans or adulterers like some of them. In fact, some of them committed fornication and twenty-three thousand of them died in one night." It is written in the first and later verses of the book Numbers in the Old Testament: "The Israelites began to commit fornication. God sent plague upon them. The number of those who died of plague was twenty-four thousand," Since there is a difference of one thousand between the given numbers of the dead, one of them is certainly wrong.

Again, in the fourteenth verse of the seventh chapter of the Book of Acts: "Yusuf (Joseph) sent an envoy to invite his father Yaqub (Jacob) and all his relations, seventy-five people, [to Egypt]." In this passage, Yusuf 'alaihis-salam' himself and his two sons in Egypt are not included in these seventy-five people. The number mentioned gives only the number of the people in Yaqub's 'alaihis-salam' tribe.

Nevertheless, the twenty-seventh verse of the forty-sixth chapter of Genesis states that "The number of the sons of Jacob that came to Egypt was seventhly. The passage from the Book of Acts is apparently erroneous.

Such is the matter with the four Gospels, which form the basis for the Christian creed, and with the epistles. As we have remarked above, these are not the only contradictions in these Gospels or in the Old Testament and the New Testament. Since an explanation of all these contradictions one by one would take volumes of books and some of them have been explained in the books Iz-har-ul-haq and Shams-ul-haqiqa, we have not given detailed information here. Those who would like to obtain more information in this respect ought to consult the book titled Tahrirat-i-enaji, which was written and published in 1233 [A.D. 1818] by Giesler, a Protestant scholar; Sellirmagir's Muqaddima-i-kitab-i-Ahd-i-jedeed, published in 1817; Seefirs's Birinci Incilin Asli (The Real Origin of the First Gospel), published in 1832; the book-Inciller uzerine Mulahezat (A Criticism of the Gospels), written by Your, one of the contemporary orientalist; the orientalist ShuAzar's Yuhanna inceeli uzerine inceleme (An Observation of the Gospel of John), published in 1841; the book written by Gustav Ichtel, a contemporary writer, to describe the manners of Isa 'alaihis-salam'; and [any of the countless books] written by historians such as Strauss.

As for the Qur'an al-karim, to which Muslims adhere, [and attain felicity in this world and the next by obeying it]; as foreordained by the blessed meaning of the ninth verse of the sura (chapter) Hijr, which purports, "We sent the Qur'an al-karim down, and we again shall protect it", it has been protected under the divine guard of Allahu ta'ala for twelve for twelve hundred and ninety-three years [fourteen hundred and ten years for today], i.e. from the time of hijra-i-nabawiyya (the Hegira) to our time, without the slightest addition or subtraction even in its punctuation marks, though its copies have been possessed by Muslims of various nationalities ever since; this is a universally verified fact. And now a few priest, who are in Islamic countries on a mission of several golds' salary, are indulging in a dream in which they enjoy having a true religion by contrasting it [Christianity, whose inner essence we have explained above,] to Islam, which was founded on firm bases and which has reached us today with its pristine authenticity and soundness; aren't their assertions too preposterous to be answered? If their attempts were intended to disclose the truth as they claim, they could be tolerable to some extent, for they have not studied Islamic books with due attention. But it is not the case; their real purpose is to wheedle the ignorant out of Islam by means of various sophistries and tricks. Being unable to answer the books written by Islamic 'ulama or the questions they are asked by them, they have been attacking Islam with their usual insolent ignorance [and obduracy] as if they had not seen those books. They have been secretly writing and publishing books and pamphlets full of lies and slanders and spreading them in a clandestine way.