Belief in the Revealed Books

Belief in the revealed books is one of the six pillars of faith: the conviction that God sent written scripture to guide humanity at different points in history, through different prophets. The Quran names several of these directly — the Suhuf (Scrolls) of Ibrahim, the Tawrat (Torah) given to Musa, the Zabur (Psalms) given to Dawud (David), and the Injil (Gospel) given to Isa (Jesus). Islamic belief holds that these earlier scriptures conveyed the same essential message as the Quran — the oneness of God and the call to righteous living — but that their texts, over time, underwent alteration and loss in ways the Quran describes without detailing precisely. The Quran itself is regarded as God's final, complete, and textually preserved revelation, given to Muhammad ﷺ over roughly twenty-three years. Muslims are required to believe in the earlier scriptures as authentic revelations from God in their original form, even while holding that the Quran is the reference point that confirms, corrects, and supersedes them.