A Jew, either residing in the vicinity of Mecca, or having visited it perhaps
from Medina or elsewhere,—at any rate known at Mecca,—is quoted to the
people of Mecca as bearing testimony to the correspondence of the Corân with the
Jewish Scriptures, and accordingly believing in it. "Does not this,"
says Mahomet, "prove the divine inspiration of the Corân, and yet ye
proudly reject it?"
So Baidhâwi,—
على مثله مثل القران وهو ما في التوراة من المعاني المصدقة القرآن المطابقة له أو مثل ذالك وهو كونه من عندالله فآمن أي بالقرآن لما رائي من خبر الوحي مطابقاً للحق
"To the like-thereof, i. e. like the Corân, and the meaning is
that the contents of the Tourât (Pentateuch) by their purport attest the Corân,
as corresponding therewith, or resembling it;—and thus prove its being from
God. And believed, that is, in the Corân, when he (the Jew) saw the
intimations of Inspiration corresponding with the truth."
Thus the Corân appeals to the evidence of a Jew, who (as is alleged) finding
the purport of Mahomet's revelation to correspond with the tenor of his own
