Gospel (Islam)

Gospel (Islam)

The Injil (Arabic: إنجيل‎ ʾInǧīl ) is the Arabic name for what Muslims believe to be the original Gospel of Jesus. This Injil is one of the four Islamic Holy Books the Qur'an records as revealed by God (see Allah), the others being the Zabur (possibly the Psalms), the Tawrat (the Torah, or Tanakh), and the Qur'an. The word Injil is derived from the Greek word Εὐαγγέλιον (euangelion) which means 'good news' (the term injil is also used by Christian Arabs for their gospels; e.g. Gospel of John, (Arabic: إنجيل يوحنا‎ ʾInǧīl Yūḥannā ) as well as Indonesian Christians; e.g. Injil Yohanes). Muslims believe this original Gospel to have been corrupted over time, and the teachings of Jesus lost and replaced with false teachings, often believed to be at the instigation of the Apostle Paul. Muslims believe that the four canonical gospels of Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, Saint Luke and Saint John and lost Gospels, such as that of Saint Peter, contain fragments of Jesus' message, but that the majority of the original teaching has been corrupted or lost.