by Muhammad Rasheed (Socio-Political Commentator)
As Allah Swt explained in the selected verses listed below, the People of the Book received many prophets over millennia, but did not accept all of them in their arrogant audacity. It’s clear that the elitist disbelievers among them concocted their own criteria as to whether God’s message was true or not, and whether His messengers really had been anointed by their Creator. In great blasphemy they rejected/hid/twisted the revelations, persecuted, and even killed some of the messengers.
These hidden scriptures Allah Swt mentioned are peppered throughout the greater body of biblical literature, found in the collections of so-called Jewish ‘folk tales,’ the so-called Apocrypha of the Christians, and the like. When learned doctors of the Law would recognized such works in the Qur’an, they would of course be shocked — this being the source of the false accusations that Muhammad Pbuh had kidnapped a rogue rabbi who couldn’t keep his mouth shut, or studied such works himself proving he wasn’t really illiterate, etc. Verily, the truth was revealed by Allah, and the believer recognizes truth over falsehood. A great wrong they commit by playing loose & free with the Word of the Lord thy God, and harsh indeed will be His penalty should they not repent. Glory be to Allah, Lord of the worlds!
3:187
And remember Allah took a covenant from the People of the Book, to make it
known and clear to mankind, and not to hide it; but they threw it away behind
their backs, and purchased with it some miserable gain! And vile was the bargain they made!
And remember Allah took a covenant from the People of the Book, to make it
known and clear to mankind, and not to hide it; but they threw it away behind
their backs, and purchased with it some miserable gain! And vile was the bargain they made!
16:101
When We substitute one revelation for another – and Allah knows best what
He reveals in stages – they say, "Thou art but a forger," but most of them
understand not.
When We substitute one revelation for another – and Allah knows best what
He reveals in stages – they say, "Thou art but a forger," but most of them
understand not.
2:87-91
87. We gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of messengers; We gave Jesus the son of Mary Clear Signs and strengthened him with the holy spirit. Is it that whenever there comes to you a messenger with what ye yourselves desire not, ye are puffed up with pride?- Some ye called impostors, and others ye slay! 88. They say, "Our hearts are the wrappings which preserve Allah's Word: we need no more." Nay, Allah's curse is on them for their blasphemy: Little is it they believe. 89. And when there comes to them a Book from Allah, confirming what is with them,- although from of old they had prayed for victory against those without Faith,- when there comes to them that which they should have recognized, they refuse to believe in it but the curse of Allah is on those without Faith. 90. Miserable is the price for which they have sold their souls, in that they deny the revelation which Allah has sent down, in insolent envy that Allah of His Grace should send it to any of His servants He pleases: Thus have they drawn on themselves Wrath upon Wrath. And humiliating is the punishment of those who reject Faith. 91. When it is said to them, "Believe in what Allah Hath sent down, "they say, "We believe in what was sent down to us:" yet they reject all besides, even if it be Truth confirming what is with them. Say: "Why then have ye slain the prophets of Allah in times gone by, if ye did indeed believe?"
87. We gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of messengers; We gave Jesus the son of Mary Clear Signs and strengthened him with the holy spirit. Is it that whenever there comes to you a messenger with what ye yourselves desire not, ye are puffed up with pride?- Some ye called impostors, and others ye slay! 88. They say, "Our hearts are the wrappings which preserve Allah's Word: we need no more." Nay, Allah's curse is on them for their blasphemy: Little is it they believe. 89. And when there comes to them a Book from Allah, confirming what is with them,- although from of old they had prayed for victory against those without Faith,- when there comes to them that which they should have recognized, they refuse to believe in it but the curse of Allah is on those without Faith. 90. Miserable is the price for which they have sold their souls, in that they deny the revelation which Allah has sent down, in insolent envy that Allah of His Grace should send it to any of His servants He pleases: Thus have they drawn on themselves Wrath upon Wrath. And humiliating is the punishment of those who reject Faith. 91. When it is said to them, "Believe in what Allah Hath sent down, "they say, "We believe in what was sent down to us:" yet they reject all besides, even if it be Truth confirming what is with them. Say: "Why then have ye slain the prophets of Allah in times gone by, if ye did indeed believe?"
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