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*Surah Aal-e-Imran, Verse 23:*
أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا نَصِيبًا مِّنَ الْكِتَابِ يُدْعَوْنَ إِلَىٰ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ لِيَحْكُمَ بَيْنَهُمْ ثُمَّ يَتَوَلَّىٰ فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُمْ وَهُم مُّعْرِضُونَ
Have you not seen those who have been given a portion of the Scripture? They are being invited to the Book of Allah to settle their dispute, then a party of them turn away, and they are averse.
*COMMENTARY*
A portion of the Book, I conceive that Allāh's revelation as a whole throughout the ages is "The Book". The Law of Moses, and the Gospel of Jesus were portions of the Book. The Glorious Qur-ān completes the revelation and is par excellence the Book of Allāh (Sub-haanahu wata'aala).
The Commentators mentioned a particular incident when a dispute was submitted by the Jews for arbitration to the Holy Prophet (Blessings and Peace be upon him). He appealed to the authority of their own books, but they tried to conceal and prevaricate. The general lesson is that the people of the Book should have been the first to welcome in Muhammad (Blessings and Peace be upon him) the living exponent of the Message of Allāh (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) as a whole, and some of them did so: but others turned away from guilty arrogance, relying on corrupted texts and doctrines forged out of their own fancies, though they were not conformable to reason and good sense.
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*Surah Aal-e-Imran, Verse 24:*
ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ قَالُوا لَن تَمَسَّنَا النَّارُ إِلَّا أَيَّامًا مَّعْدُودَاتٍ وَغَرَّهُمْ فِي دِينِهِم مَّا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ
This is because they say: "The Fire shall not touch us but for a number of days." And that which they used to invent regarding their religion has deceived them.
*Surah Aal-e-Imran, Verse 23:*
أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا نَصِيبًا مِّنَ الْكِتَابِ يُدْعَوْنَ إِلَىٰ كِتَابِ اللَّهِ لِيَحْكُمَ بَيْنَهُمْ ثُمَّ يَتَوَلَّىٰ فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُمْ وَهُم مُّعْرِضُونَ
Have you not seen those who have been given a portion of the Scripture? They are being invited to the Book of Allah to settle their dispute, then a party of them turn away, and they are averse.
*COMMENTARY*
A portion of the Book, I conceive that Allāh's revelation as a whole throughout the ages is "The Book". The Law of Moses, and the Gospel of Jesus were portions of the Book. The Glorious Qur-ān completes the revelation and is par excellence the Book of Allāh (Sub-haanahu wata'aala).
The Commentators mentioned a particular incident when a dispute was submitted by the Jews for arbitration to the Holy Prophet (Blessings and Peace be upon him). He appealed to the authority of their own books, but they tried to conceal and prevaricate. The general lesson is that the people of the Book should have been the first to welcome in Muhammad (Blessings and Peace be upon him) the living exponent of the Message of Allāh (Sub-haanahu wata'aala) as a whole, and some of them did so: but others turned away from guilty arrogance, relying on corrupted texts and doctrines forged out of their own fancies, though they were not conformable to reason and good sense.
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*Surah Aal-e-Imran, Verse 24:*
ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ قَالُوا لَن تَمَسَّنَا النَّارُ إِلَّا أَيَّامًا مَّعْدُودَاتٍ وَغَرَّهُمْ فِي دِينِهِم مَّا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ
This is because they say: "The Fire shall not touch us but for a number of days." And that which they used to invent regarding their religion has deceived them.
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