The call of God to Jews and Christians to study the Quran
5: 15. People of the Bible [: Jews and Christians], now has Our messenger [Mohammed] come expounding to you many things in the Book [or the Bible] that you were concealing
a, and many things else he disregards
b. There has come to you light
c from God and a clear 'Book' [: the Quran.]
5: 16. Whereby
d God guides him who seeks His good pleasure
e to the paths of safety
f, and brings them out of darkness to light
g with His leave
h, and guides them
i to a straight path
j.
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a i.e. Our messenger Mohammed has come to expound to you many statements of the Torah and the Gospel which your ancestors concealed; he expounds such statements of the Torah and the Gospel to you, in order to confirm their authenticity, lest you should not conceal and deny them as did your ancestors conceal.
b While he disregards the rest of the statements of the Torah which your ancestors were concealing, and so he does not expound them, because they are so many.
c Which is the revelation that Gabriel came down with on Mohammed; this is indicated by His saying – be glorified – in the Quran 4: 174, which means:
(O mankind, there has [now come to you the Quran as] a proof from your Lord; We have sent down to you [included in the Quran] an elucidating light.)
d i.e. by the Quran.
e And refrains from his vain desires and caprices.
f In the Next Life; i.e. God guides him to the ways of safety from the punishment and from Fire.
g i.e. from the darkness of ignorance to the light of knowledge.
h i.e. God gives leave to His angels to guide them to the Islam.
i On Judgment Day.
j Leading to Paradise [in heaven.]
Now, I tell you about some of the statements of the Torah and Gospel, concealed by Jews and Christians, who altered their doctrines to achieve their own advantages.
Jews concealed "
the washing after copulation" and abandoned it; they allowed for themselves the "
drinking of wine" and concealed its forbidding in the Torah; they also allowed
the taking of "usury" and "bribe"… etc, and concealed the forbidding of that all in the Torah.
The Quran in fact came to confirm the prohibition of these forbidden things in the Torah, and to remind Jews about the authenticity of such prohibitions, lest they should neglect and conceal them as had their ancestors concealed.
For it is mentioned in the Bible, the
Book of Proverbs, chapter 23: 29-35 about dispraising and forbidding the wine:
“29-Who haswoe? Whose father has woe? Who has contentions? Who falls into pits? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
30-Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink off their cups.
31-Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shines in the glass. It goes in pleasantly.
32-But in the end it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad its poison like a basilisk.
33-The eyes shall behold strange women: and your heart shall utter perverse things.
34-And you shall be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep, when the stern is lost.
35-And you shall say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not. When shall I awake, and find wine again?”
This is mentioned in the Torah about the forbidding of the wine, but they have concealed it and they drink the wine.
And this is,
about the washing after copulation, in the Book of Levites (Priests), chapter 15:
"When a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening."
So this is some of what has been mentioned about the washing after copulation, but they concealed it and altered the meaning so that they may not wash after copulation.
While their
prophet Isaiah rebuked them for their taking the bribe, in the Book of Isaiah, chapter 5:
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
22Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks,
23who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent."
On the other hand, Christians have abandoned the washing after copulation and have
forsaken the circumsicion. They take the usury, and they have allowed the drinking of wine, claimed about the Trinity, abandoned the worshipping of God and worshipped the statues of the Christ and his mother, and concealed that which is mentioned in the Torah about the discarding of idols and forbidding of their sanctification and the prostration to them.
For it is mentioned in the Tablets, the Ten Words, in the
Book of Deuteronomy, chapter 5, God – be glorified – said:
"You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God."
So while Christians believe in the Torah, and they read the Ten Words mentioned in the Tablets, but in spite of that they make statues of the Christ and his mother and prostrate themselves to them. Similarly, they conceal the word of the monotheism in the Torah and the Gospel, and they claim about the Trinity.
For it is mentioned in the Bible, the Book of Deuteronomy, chapter 16:
"The Lord our God, the Lord is one."
And it is mentioned in the Gospel of Mathew, chapter 23, the Christ said:
"And do not call anyone on earth `father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven."
And it is mentioned in the Gospel of Mark, chapter 12:
"One of the teachers of the law came and asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?"
"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: `Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one."
So God affirmed in the Gospel the monotheism of the Torah, and he did not approve the Trinity. That is because if you review the Gospel, you will see the repetition of the phrase: (son of man) because the Christ calls himself the (son of man), and he did not say: (son of God.)
But on one occasion a possessed man cried out: "What is the matter of us with you, son of God!"
Therefore, Christians received this word out of the mouth of the possessed man, but they neglected about the word of the Christ that he is the (son of man.)
And it is mentioned in the Torah, the
Book of Numbers, chapter 23, He said:
"
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind."
So while the Christ surnamed himself the
son of man so many times in the Gospel, then how do they consider him the son of God?
Moreover, it is confirmed in the Torah that God is neither a man nor yet a son of man, and it is confirmed that He is One but not three as do they claim.
The Disagreement of the
