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300 Jesus, Prophet of Islam

him peace, who confirmed the teachings of both Moses and Jesus,
while at the same time simplifying and abrogating their Law:

And God indeed made a covenant with the Tribe of Is­

rael, and Weraisedup twelve leadersfrom among them,

and God said: '5urely 1 am with you. If you establish

the prayer and pay the zakai, and accept My Messen­

gers and honour them, and lend to God a good loan,

surely 1will remit your sins, and surely 1will bring you

into Gardens undemeathwhichrivers flow. 50whoever

ofyou disbelieves after this will certainly go astray from

the right way.'

And because of their breaking their covenant, We have

cursed them and made their hearts grow hard. They

separate words from their meanings and forget about

part of what they have been reminded; and you will not

cease finding treachery from all except a few of them ­

but forgive them and pardon them. 5urely God loves

those who do good.

And We made a covenant with those who say, '5urely

we are Christians,' but they forgot a part of what they

had been reminded - so Wehave stirred up enmity and

hatredamong them until the Day of Standing, whenGod

will show them what they were doing.

oPeople of the Book, now has OurMessenger(Muham­

mad) indeed come to you, making clear to you much of

what you used to hide in the Book, and forgiving much.

Now there has indeed come to you from God a Light

and a clear Book, whereby God guides whoever seeks

His pleasure to paths of peace - and He brings them out

of darkness into light by His decree, and guides them to

a straight path. (Qur'an 5: 12-16).

As the above passage indicates, it was inevitable that when the

Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace,

began to call people to only worship God, many of them would be

those who claimed to be following either Moses or Jesus, and it is

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