USTADZ AHMAD BARCELON: Question and Answer… (After one of his debates)

I have not met Ustadj Barcelon (the Philippine version of the late Ahmad Deedat of South Africa) in person, but I spoke with him over the phone ten years ago. We talked for at least 30 minutes, if I remember correctly. He totally rejected the Bible at the time, but I tried to dissuade him with the argument that although the Qur’an teaches the bible to have been corrupted by people, it also teaches that there are still some truths in it. It is the reason why, time and again, the Qur’an instructs the reader to refer to the revelations that came before it, meaning previous to the Qur’an, for details, especially the stories of the lives of the prophets whose names are mentioned in the Qur’an only in passing.