Surat Al Ma'idah (61-70)

{وَإِذَا جَآؤُوكُمْ قَالُوَاْ آمَنَّا وَقَد دَّخَلُواْ بِالْكُفْرِ وَهُمْ قَدْ خَرَجُواْ بِهِ وَاللّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَكْتُمُونَ} [المائدة :  61]

61- When the hypocrites come to you, they deceive you, conceal disbelief, and say with their tongues:  We are believers. However, the truth is that they joined you while they were disbelievers and left you as disbelievers. So, they did not benefit by sitting with you, did not want to listen to you, and Allah knows best with what they conceal in their hearts.

{وَتَرَى كَثِيراً مِّنْهُمْ يُسَارِعُونَ فِي الإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ وَأَكْلِهِمُ السُّحْتَ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُواْ يَعْمَلُونَ} [المائدة :  62]

62- And you see many of those Jews haste to evil acts; by committing sins and evils, show aggression to the people by all kinds of oppression, mockery, and treason, and eat bribes to make the unlawful things lawful. How worse is what they do and how strange is what they do!

{لَوْلاَ يَنْهَاهُمُ الرَّبَّانِيُّونَ وَالأَحْبَارُ عَن قَوْلِهِمُ الإِثْمَ وَأَكْلِهِمُ السُّحْتَ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُواْ يَصْنَعُونَ} [المائدة :  63]

63- Would the Jewish and the Christian scholars forbid to commit these terrible actions and advise them to stop lying and false claims and stop eating ill-gotten money? Their function is to tell the people about the lawful and prohibited acts which they do not know. So, wretched are what they do what they believe.

{وَقَالَتِ الْيَهُودُ يَدُ اللّهِ مَغْلُولَةٌ غُلَّتْ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَلُعِنُواْ بِمَا قَالُواْ بَلْ يَدَاهُ مَبْسُوطَتَانِ يُنفِقُ كَيْفَ يَشَاءُ وَلَيَزِيدَنَّ كَثِيراً مِّنْهُم مَّا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِن رَّبِّكَ طُغْيَاناً وَكُفْراً وَأَلْقَيْنَا بَيْنَهُمُ الْعَدَاوَةَ وَالْبَغْضَاء إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ كُلَّمَا أَوْقَدُواْ نَاراً لِّلْحَرْبِ أَطْفَأَهَا اللّهُ وَيَسْعَوْنَ فِي الأَرْضِ فَسَاداً وَاللّهُ لاَ يُحِبُّ الْمُفْسِدِينَ} [المائدة :  64]

64- The Jews said:  Verily, the hands of Allah are misers (may He be Exalted)  May their souls be tight. May their hands stop doing good deeds because they are known with misery, envy, cowardice, humiliation, and Allah would curse and expel them from His Mercy because of what their claims against Allah, their Great Creator, their Provider, and the Provider of all the living in the universe. His Hands are stretched with favors because He is of great and plenty favors without losing something of His treasures. He spends as He will by expanding or narrowing sustenance for others. As for the words they said, they are part of their disbelief and they shall increase their disbelief by denying other Ayahs that are revealed to you. Moreover, We incited between them enmities and envy, hence, they became sects and groups whose hearts are not in harmony and their words are not united because of their differences and disputes about their religion. They became in rivalry and that will be their status on the Day of Resurrection. Whenever they want to deceive you or start war against Muslims with their wicked methods, their evil malice and inciting war among sects and groups, Allah puts it off, cancels their cunning, defeats them, and provides victory to His Prophet and His Religion. This is part of their nature because their nature is to spread corruption on earth by plotting against the people of the truth, inciting evil and sedition, and maintaining the ignition of war. However, Allah hates these qualities and its people and shall reckon them for what they have done.

{وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ آمَنُواْ وَاتَّقَوْاْ لَكَفَّرْنَا عَنْهُمْ سَيِّئَاتِهِمْ وَلأدْخَلْنَاهُمْ جَنَّاتِ النَّعِيمِ} [المائدة :  65]

65- If the People of the Book, from the Jews and Christians, believed in Allah and His Messenger, and stayed away from the prohibited things and evils, We would have forgiven the sins that they had committed and we would have admitted them to permanent heavens in which they enjoy forever.

{وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ أَقَامُواْ التَّوْرَاةَ وَالإِنجِيلَ وَمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيهِم مِّن رَّبِّهِمْ لأكَلُواْ مِن فَوْقِهِمْ وَمِن تَحْتِ أَرْجُلِهِم مِّنْهُمْ أُمَّةٌ مُّقْتَصِدَةٌ وَكَثِيرٌ مِّنْهُمْ سَاء مَا يَعْمَلُونَ} [المائدة :  66]

66- If the People of the Book act according to the rulings of the Torah and the Bible as they were revealed without distortion and alteration, especially believing in the glad tidings of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and the Scriptures that were revealed to the Prophets of Banu Israel, Allah would expand their sustenance, the sky will send rain on them, and the earth will gush forth with plants and fruit. There was a group of the People of the Book believed in the message of Islam, followed the Prophet (peace be upon him) while many of them were fanatic, stubborn, and haughty who used to distort the truth and turn away from it; how worse are their actions and how worse are their hopes.

{يَا أَيُّهَا الرَّسُولُ بَلِّغْ مَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِن رَّبِّكَ وَإِن لَّمْ تَفْعَلْ فَمَا بَلَّغْتَ رِسَالَتَهُ وَاللّهُ يَعْصِمُكَ مِنَ النَّاسِ إِنَّ اللّهَ لاَ يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْكَافِرِينَ} [المائدة :  67]

67- O honorable Messenger who is sent to the worlds [i.e., people], convey to the people all that has been revealed to you, but if you do not convey the message, you will not deliver the message. The Messenger (peace be upon him) delivered the trust which he was entrusted fully and did not conceal anything as was reported in the authentic Hadith of `Aisha. Allah safeguarded you from your enemy, so no one was able to kill or harm you. So, pay attention to deliver the message, do not fear, and do not feel sad because Allah guides whomever He wants and misleads whomever He wants. The infidels will not find a way to guidance as long as they closed their minds and hearts, refused to listen to the truth, and refused to follow it. It was reported in a good Hadith that when Allah (may He be Exalted) revealed:  "Allah will protect you from mankind."

{قُلْ يَا أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ لَسْتُمْ عَلَى شَيْءٍ حَتَّىَ تُقِيمُواْ التَّوْرَاةَ وَالإِنجِيلَ وَمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكُم مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَلَيَزِيدَنَّ كَثِيراً مِّنْهُم مَّا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ مِن رَّبِّكَ طُغْيَاناً وَكُفْراً فَلاَ تَأْسَ عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْكَافِرِينَ} [المائدة :  68]

68- O Prophet of Allah say:  O People of the Book, from the Jews and Christians, You are [standing] on nothing from the truth nor on the true religion until you maintain what has been revealed in the Torah and the Bible from matters and rulings without violation and alteration. Of these things that you must believe in is the glad tiding with the Prophet (peace be upon him) and until you believe in the Qur'an which was revealed to him. The rulings and the truth that were revealed to you, O messenger of Allah, the number of the disbelievers shall increase greatly as well as their turning away from the truth because they do not accept the truth and show haughty and stubbornness. So, do not feel sorrow for their destruction and torture because this is the bad end of those who were content with error and they are the ones who are blamed .

{إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ وَالَّذِينَ هَادُواْ وَالصَّابِؤُونَ وَالنَّصَارَى مَنْ آمَنَ بِاللّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الآخِرِ وعَمِلَ صَالِحاً فَلاَ خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ} [المائدة :  69]

69- Verily, any of Muslims, Jews, Sabian, and Christians, believe in Allah, in resurrection and in the retribution on the Day of Recompense and did righteously (action will not be righteous except if it is in harmony with religion and devotionally for Allah) shall not be harmed (in regard to Muslims who have these qualities) when the disbelievers fear of the coming and they shall not feel sad when the delinquent feel sorry for the great reward they missed. The meaning is:  each sect should believe in the religion present in its time, but in the time of Islam no religion will be accepted but Islam.

{لَقَدْ أَخَذْنَا مِيثَاقَ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَأَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْهِمْ رُسُلاً كُلَّمَا جَاءهُمْ رَسُولٌ بِمَا لاَ تَهْوَى أَنْفُسُهُمْ فَرِيقاً كَذَّبُواْ وَفَرِيقاً يَقْتُلُونَ} [المائدة :  70]

70- We have taken the covenants and compacts from the Children of Israel, and We sent to them prophets and messengers to remind and frighten them of violating those covenants in order to listen and obey. From those covenants is believing in Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), but whenever a messenger comes to them with a Shari`ah that does not match their deviant whims and their corrupted opinions, a party of them called them as liars, disagree with them, and kill them.