Surah 4

Surah 4:136

"You who believe! Believe in God and His messenger, and the Book He has sent down on His messenger, and the Book which He sent down before (this). Whoever disbelieves in God and His angels, and His Books and His messengers, and the Last Day, has gone very far astray."
Christian Footnotes (1)Islamic Commentaries (1)Manuscripts (61)

4.136 – Believe in . . . the Book which He sent down before
Whereas earlier in this sūra (v. 47) the Quran commands the People of the Book to believe in the messenger’s recitations in addition to their own scriptures, this verse commands the “believers” to believe in the scriptures that Allah sent down before Islam in addition to the messenger’s recitations.

- from The Quran with Christian Commentary: A Guide to Understanding the Scripture of Islam

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