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When we examine how
                                               "Book" is used here, we see that it
                                            refers to the Qur'an in both cases. The
                                            verses reveal that after the Torah, the
                                           Psalms and the Gospel, the Qur'an is the
                                          final divine book. Some other verses use
                                        "Book" to denote the Qur'an, after mention-
                                   ing the Torah and the Gospel, such as the follow-
                                 ing:

                                God, there is no god but Him, the Living, the Self-
                              Sustaining. He 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. (Surah Al
                              ‘Imran, 3:2-4)
                                   Other verses also call the Qur'an the "Book":
                           When a Book comes to them from God, confirming what
                           is with them – even though before that they were praying
                           for victory over the unbelievers – yet when what they rec-
                          ognize comes to them, they reject it. God's curse is on the
                        unbelievers. (Surat al-Baqara, 2:89)

                    For this We sent a Messenger to you from among you to recite Our
                    Signs to you, to purify you, to teach you the Book and Wisdom,
                    and to teach you things you did not know before. (Surat al-Baqara,
                    2:151)
                    In this case, the Qur'an is the third book that Jesus will be taught.
                But this will be possible only when he returns to Earth, for he lived
                600 years before the Qur'an's revelation. As we will see in great detail
                in the following chapters, the hadiths reveal that Jesus will rule with
                the Qur'an, not the Gospel, on his second coming. This corresponds
                with the verse's meaning.



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