When you should read the Bible?

Question:

What is the ruling upon reading the Bible?

Answer:

The revealed books [from the previous revelations] have within them a great amount of distortions and additions and (a great amount has been) removed from them, as Allaah the Most High has mentioned. Therefore it is not permissible for a Muslim that he put himself forward in reading and studying them, except if he is one who is from the firmly grounded in knowledge, and he intends to clarify that which is within them from the distortion and contradictions between them.


Permanent Committee for Research and Verdicts


Sahab

Translated by Abu Maryam Taariq bin 'Ali