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has sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming what was there
before it. And He sent down the Torah and the Gospel previously, as
guidance for humanity" (Surah Al 'Imran: 3-4). In another verse, God
says of the Torah:
We sent down the Torah containing guidance and light, and the
Prophets who had submitted themsel lves gave judgment by it for the Jews
– as did their scholars and their rabbis – by what they had beeen allowed

to preserve of God's Book to which they were witnesses. (Surat Al-
Ma'ida: 44)

The Qur'an also reveals that some Jewish religious figures "distort
words from their proper meanings" (Surat al-Ma'ida: 41) and write the
Book with their own hands and then say: 'This is from God' to sell it for
a paltry price" (Surat al-Baqara: 79). In other words, they have corrupted
God's revelation to Prophet Moses (pbuh). Christians, on the other hand,
have fallen into a grave error: the trinity (Surat an-Nisa': 171).
In the Qur'an, God provides a great deal of important information
about the theological or moral errors of some members of People of the
Book. This does not mean, however, that all of them have gone astray, as
the following verses state:

T They are not all the same. There is a community among the People of
the Book who are upright. They re ecite God's Signs throughout the night,
and they prostrate. They believe in God and the Last Day, enj join the
right and forbid the wrong, and compete in doing good. They are among
the righteous. You wil ll not be denied the reward for any good thing you
do. God knows those who guard against evil. (Surah h Al 'Imran: 113-15)

Among the People of the Book are some who believe in God, what has
been sent dowwn to you and what was sent down to them, and who are
humble before God. They do not sell God's Signss for a paltry price. Such
people will have their reward with their Lord. And God is swift at reck-
oning. (Surah Al 'Imran: 199)