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*Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 77:*
أَوَلَا يَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ مَا يُسِرُّونَ وَمَا يُعْلِنُونَ
Know they (Jews) not that Allāh knows what they conceal and what they reveal?
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*Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 78:*
وَمِنْهُمْ أُمِّيُّونَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ الْكِتَابَ إِلَّا أَمَانِيَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ
And there are among them (Jews) unlettered people, who know not the Book, but they trust upon false desires and they do nothing but conjecture.
*COMMENTARY*
The argument of i. 76 is continued. The Jews wanted to keep back knowledge, but what knowledge had they? Many of them, even if they could read, were no better than illiterates, for they knew not their own true Scriptures, but read into them what they wanted, or at best their own conjectures. They palmed off their own writings for the Message of Allāh. Perhaps it brought them profit for the time being: but it was a miserable profit if they "gained the whole world and lost their own souls" (Gospel of St. Mathew, New Testament, chapter xvi, verse 26). "Writing with their own hands" means inventing books themselves, which had no divine authority.
The general argument is similar. Unfaith erects its own false gods. It attributes things to cause which only exist in its own imagination. Sometimes, it even indulges in actual dishonest traffic in the ignorance of the multitude. It may pay for a time, but the bubble always bursts.
*Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 77:*
أَوَلَا يَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ مَا يُسِرُّونَ وَمَا يُعْلِنُونَ
Know they (Jews) not that Allāh knows what they conceal and what they reveal?
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*Surah Al-Baqara, Verse 78:*
وَمِنْهُمْ أُمِّيُّونَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ الْكِتَابَ إِلَّا أَمَانِيَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ
And there are among them (Jews) unlettered people, who know not the Book, but they trust upon false desires and they do nothing but conjecture.
*COMMENTARY*
The argument of i. 76 is continued. The Jews wanted to keep back knowledge, but what knowledge had they? Many of them, even if they could read, were no better than illiterates, for they knew not their own true Scriptures, but read into them what they wanted, or at best their own conjectures. They palmed off their own writings for the Message of Allāh. Perhaps it brought them profit for the time being: but it was a miserable profit if they "gained the whole world and lost their own souls" (Gospel of St. Mathew, New Testament, chapter xvi, verse 26). "Writing with their own hands" means inventing books themselves, which had no divine authority.
The general argument is similar. Unfaith erects its own false gods. It attributes things to cause which only exist in its own imagination. Sometimes, it even indulges in actual dishonest traffic in the ignorance of the multitude. It may pay for a time, but the bubble always bursts.
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