Rahmatullah Kairanvi wrote the book in response to the Christian offensive

against Islam during the British rule in India, and specifically to counter the

subversive attack made by the Rev. C. C. P. Fonder. Rev. Fonder had written a

book in Urdu entitled Meezanul Haq, the open intention of which was to create

doubts into the minds of the Muslims about the authenticity of the Qur’an and

Islam.

Kairanvi’s intention in his book was first of all to show that the Bible cannot in any

way be considered as a directly revealed book. He does this very effectively by

means of his voluminous and authoritative knowledge of the Jewish and

Christian scriptures. He demonstrates beyond doubt that the Books of the Old

and New Testaments have been altered, almost beyond recognition, from their

original forms. The work is even more notable in the light of subsequent Jewish

and Christian scholarship and the various discoveries that have since been made

in this field which all bear out the truth of Kairanvi’s thesis.