Deceiving by the People of the Scripture (L-407)
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وَإِنَّ مِنهُم لَفَريقًا
يَلوونَ أَلسِنَتَهُم بِالكِتابِ لِتَحسَبوهُ مِنَ الكِتابِ وَما هُوَ مِنَ
الكِتابِ وَيَقولونَ هُوَ مِن عِندِ اللَّهِ وَما هُوَ مِن عِندِ اللَّهِ
وَيَقولونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ الكَذِبَ وَهُم يَعلَمونَ78. |
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78. Wa
‘inna minhum lafarii-qany-yal-wuuna ‘alsi-natahum
bil-Kitaabi li-tahsabuuhu minal-kitaabi wa maa
huwa minal- kitaab. Wa yaquuluuna
huwa min ‘inDillaahi wa maa
huwa min ‘inDillaah. Wa yaquu-luuna ‘alAllaahil-kaziba
wa hum ya’-lamuun. |
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78. And among them
are those who twist the Scripture with their tongues, that you may think it
from the Scripture, when it is not from the Scripture. And they say, “It is
from God,” when it is not from God. They tell lies and attribute them to God,
knowingly. |
God has mentioned in this verse about religious embezzlement and dishonesty of the People of the Scripture. These people deceive the persons in their worldly matters as well as in the religious affairs. They amend the Words of Heavenly Books (the Scripture) and depose duly changed its meanings. They included some false self-invented descriptions in Torah and Gospel and excluded entire those verses from the Holy Books, which they considered apparently not fruitful for them.
Some people from them were those, who distorted the Scripture with their tongues, so that the listeners might be deceived and they might think that what they had said was from the Scripture. Their evil did not go to an end here but they also used to claim that it entire was revealed from God, while it was not from the Scripture. How much hard heartedness would be more than it that they attributed all such false descriptions as from God, while they knew that it was not from God but their self-invented and they told a lie concerning God knowingly. For them surely there will be a painful doom.
It is known from this verse also
that the children of Israel changed the Scripture of God intentionally for the purpose of
only worldly greediness. Due to revenge of this kind of evils, they were
involved in different types of difficulties and torments from God. Entire favors were snatched from
them. Their biggest favor was prophet-hood, which was transferred to the
children of Ishmael {Last Messenger, Muhammad – (ﷺ)} from them. Now the Word of God is in our trust in the form of
Holy Qur’an. We should preserve Its Words and Meanings completely
and should not attribute anything towards God, which is neither held in Holy Qur’an and
nor is against the Will of God.
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