A Call to Contemporary Jews
O people of the Scripture, your Scripture (or Book) was torn up by Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and your present Torah was altered by the hand of Ezra, the son of Siraeh. The statements, that God had revealed to His messenger Moses the son of Imran, have been changed, and the laws have been altered. Therefore, your religious duties have been altered, and your religious deeds (or rituals) have become wrong. So your religion has become torn up just as had your Book been torn.
While God – be glorified – has ordered you to believe in the religion of Islam, so obey the order of God, and believe in His messenger Mohammed, the son of Abdullah, and don’t be like the stubborn deniers: who deny God’s messengers; because that will let you lose in the Next Life, just as did your fathers lose, because they denied God’s prophets and hurt them, and “the man who warns he should not be blamed.”
God – be glorified – said in the
Quran 5: 15, which means
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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, and many things else he disregards. There has come to you a light from God and a clear 'Book' [: the Quran.])
O people of the Bible, believe in the Quran which was sent down from God to Mohammed, the messenger of God, and which includes the word of God, and abandon the books which have been altered by the hands of men so they changed their rules and distorted their programs; so that you ceased to wash your bodies with water after copulation while that is prohibited for you, and you work with usury while it is prohibited by all religions. Therefore, do not hold fast with such religion.
Moreover, God has invited you to the religion of Islam, the generous religion that is the religion of easiness in which there are no restraints or difficulties, as it has been restrained for you in the Torah. It had been restrained for you as a punishment because you disobeyed His commandment and rebelled against His messenger Moses, so He made the religious duties (or rituals) heavy on you.
But now listen to my words, follow my advice, and believe in all God’s messengers so that God will be pleased with you and you will succeed in your Worldly life and the Hereafter, and abandon the stubbornness and pride; because the consequence of the stubbornness is only the regret and loss, just as how your forefathers lost when they denied and hurt the messengers (or apostles) of God; then likewise you will lose if you do not believe in Mohammed the son of Abdullah, the messenger of God.
God – be glorified – said in the
Quran 3: 85, which means:
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Anyone seeks any religion, other than Islam, [his righteous work] will not be accepted from him [because the past religions were altered],
and he shall, in the Hereafter, be of those who lose [the prosperity of Paradise.])
God gave you respite, this whole period, [for reflection] to contemplate in his apostle-hood and to study His Quran and that you should believe in him.
God – be glorified – said in the
Quran 7: 185, which means:
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And it may be their term is already drawing nigh [by death]; in what relation, after this [Quran], then will they believe?)
The interpretation:
There will be no heavenly book after the Quran to believe in it. Therefore, no excuse for you from now on, and anyone who will believe, a period of time after this explanation, then his belief will not be accepted from him.
God – be glorified – said in the Quran
6: 158, which means:
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On the day [that] one of your Lord's portents will come, it shall not profit a soul to believe [at that time] that never believed before [the occurrence of that portent], or earned some good by his belief.
Say [Mohammed to these associaters and idolaters]: "Wait you [for the occurrence of that portent; for] we [too] are waiting [for your death in order that We will punish you in the world of souls].")
The Conflict between the Torah and the Quran
By Mohammed-Ali Hassan Al-Hilly
