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1.bIt is not compulsory to have Wudhu, although it is recommended to be always with Wudhu.

2. Which Bible you want to read? The real Bible is not available with any Christian church. All versions available are distorted.

3. What is your aim from reading a book which has mixture of right and wrong?

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reading the Bible in itself is not a problem. The Muslim person should be aware that the books included in the modern-day Bible are translations of non-original sources and therefore its accuracy cannot be confirmed. The original books have been tampered while the modern versions contain both correct and incorrect information; it is therefore difficult to discern truth from falsehood for common people.

Bible can be compared to books of hadith with no chain of transmission. It is possible to compare its content with the Qur'an, mutawatir narrations and well-established traditions, and also to study it in the light of historical facts. Today it cannot be considered an heavenly book according to Islamic perspective. 

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There is no contradiction at all. Mary (Mariam in Arabic) is daughter of Imran as Quran mentioned (And Mariam daughter of Imran who guarded her chastity) (Sura 66, Verse 12). She is also known withing Bani Israel as sister of Haroon (O sister of Haroon , you father was never a bad person nor you mother was a bad woman) (Sura Mariam, Verse 16).

Joachim can be the name of Imran in another language.

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Additionally, it does not make sense to directly compare the process of compilation of the Bible and the Qur'an because the two scriptures are quite different structurally and in terms of the historical circumstances surrounding them.

The Qur'an is much newer than the Bible, much shorter than the Bible, emerged in one region and in a short span of time. There has never been any question of what portions of the Qur'an to consider canonical. It was also all in a single language and dialect. Stylistically, the Qur'an is internally consistent indicating it is the work of a single author and does not have interpolations (whether or not one considers that author to be God, it still has a single "voice"). While, at the time of the Prophet, Mecca and Medina did not have sophisticated means of producing books, it was not long before advances in those areas, such as the use of paper, came to the Islamic world; and, in fact, it was through the Islamic world that some of these technologies were transferred to Europe. 

In contrast, the compilation of the Bible is much more complicated. The scriptures are much older, span a broader length of time, and there is a lot more complexity with respect to how it came to be a single text. (There are numerous works on this subject available.) It becomes even more complicated if one considers both the New and the Old Testaments. It is not as if someone 2000+ years ago held out a book (or, rather, a scroll) called "The Bible" that is exactly the same as you find today; there was a process. 

So, from a purely historical perspective, there are very different circumstances surrounding the compilation of what today we know as the Bible and the Qur'an, and the nature of the two books is also quite different. Therefore, it is not a one-to-one comparison and it is best to look at the compilation of each scripture separately and consider the validity or authenticity of each one separately.