Qisas al-Anbiya by Ibn Kathir (قصص الأنبياء لابن كثير) — Page 524

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وَقَالَ تَعَالَى فِي سُورَةِ الْمَائِدَةِ : ﴿ إِنَّا أَنزَلْنَا التَّوْرَاةَ فِيهَا هُدًى وَنُورٌ يَحْكُمُ بِهَا النَّبِيُّونَ الَّذِينَ أَسْلَمُوا لِلَّذِينَ هَادُوا وَالرَّبَّانِيُّونَ وَالْأَحْبَارُ بِمَا اسْتُحْفِظُوا مِن كِتَابِ اللهِ وَكَانُوا عَلَيْهِ شُهَدَاءَ فَلَا تَخْشَوُا النَّاسَ وَاخْشَوْنِ وَلَا تَشْتَرُوا بِآيَاتِي ثَمَناً قَلِيلاً وَمَن لَّمْ يَحْكُم بِمَا أَنزَلَ اللهُ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْكَافِرُونَ

Indeed, We sent down the Torah, in which was guidance and light. The prophets who submitted [to Allah] judged by it for the Jews, as did the rabbis and scholars by that with which they were entrusted of the Scripture of Allah, and they were witnesses thereto. So do not fear the people but fear Me, and do not exchange My verses for a small price. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the disbelievers.

إِلَى أَن قَالَ : ﴿ وَلْيَحْكُم أَهْلُ الْإِنجِيلِ بِمَا أَنزَلَ اللهُ فِيهِ وَمَن لَّمْ يَحْكُم بِمَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ ، وَأَنزَلْنَا إِلَيْكَ الْكِتَابَ بِالْحَقِّ مُصَدِّقاً لِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مِن الْكِتَابِ وَمُهَيْمِناً عَلَيْهِ ﴾ ... الْآيَة

Until He said: 'And let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient. And We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], the Book in truth, confirming that which preceded it of the Scripture and as a criterion over it' ... [to the end of] the verse.

فَجَعَلَ الْقُرْآنَ حَاكِماً عَلَى سَائِرِ الْكُتُبِ غَيْرِهِ ، وَجَعَلَهُ مُصَدِّقاً لَهَا وَمُبَيِّناً مَا وَقَعَ فِيهَا مِنَ التَّحْرِيفِ وَالتَّبْدِيلِ ، فَإِنَّ أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ اسْتُحْفِظُوا عَلَى مَا بِأَيْدِيهِم مِنَ الْكُتُبِ ، فَلَمْ يَقْدِرُوا عَلَى حِفْظِهَا وَلَا عَلَى ضَبْطِهَا وَصَوْنِهَا ، فَلِهَذَا دَخَلَهَا مَا دَخَلَهَا مِن تَغْيِيرِهِم وَتَبْدِيلِهِم ، لِسُوءِ فَهْمِهِم وَقُصُورِهِم فِي عُلُومِهِم ، وَرَدَاءَةِ قُصُودِهِم وَخِيَانَتِهِم لِمَعْبُودِهِم ، عَلَيْهِم لَعَائِنُ اللهِ الْمُتَتَابِعَةُ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ ، وَلِهَذَا يُوجَدُ فِي كُتُبِهِم مِنَ الْخَطَإِ الْبَيِّنِ عَلَى اللهِ وَعَلَى رَسُولِهِ - مَا لَا يُحَدُّ وَلَا يُوصَفُ ، وَمَا لَا يُوجَدُ مِثْلُهُ وَلَا يُعْرَفُ

He made the Quran a judge over all other books, and made it a confirmation of them and an explainer of the distortion and alteration that occurred within them. For the People of the Book were entrusted with what they held of the Scriptures, but they were unable to preserve, maintain, or protect them. Therefore, what entered them of their alteration and change occurred due to their poor understanding, their shortcomings in their knowledge, the corruption of their intentions, and their betrayal of their Worshipped One; upon them are the successive curses of Allah until the Day of Resurrection. For this reason, there is found in their books such manifest error regarding Allah and His Messenger that cannot be defined or described, and the like of which is neither found nor known.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (24 verbs · 65 nouns)

• قَالَ — to say
• تَعَالَى — to be exalted
• أَنزَلَ — to send down
• سُورَة — chapter
• مَائِدَة — table
• تَوْرَاة — Torah