The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 187
Propagation, Establishment of a Holy Jama'at, and Instructions 187 ting it. For instance, God Almighty commanded the. Jews not to corrupt the Torah; the consequence was that some Jews became guilty of that offence. On the contrary, nowhere in the Holy Qur'ān has God commanded the Muslims not to corrupt the Holy Qur'ān, rather it says: إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحفِظُونَ 106 i. e. , We have revealed the Holy Qur'an and We shall safeguard it. . For this reason the Holy Qur'an has been safeguarded against corruption. In short, this is the definite and established way of God that when He forbids a people from committing a vice or commands them to conform to good conduct, it means that it is within His knowledge that some of them will contravene that command. Thus, the fact that God Almighty taught the Muslims the prayer in the Surah Al-Fatihah that they should not become the Jews who had designed to crucify Jesusas, and on account of which they incurred the wrath of God in this very life, this clearly indicates that it was decreed in God's knowledge that some of the Muslim divines will, on account of their vices and their rejection of the Messiah of the age, take on the character of the Jews. There was otherwise no need for teaching such a prayer. It is obvious that Muslim divines cannot become Jews in the sense that they should become members of the tribes of Israel and contrive to crucify Jesus son of Maryas, who 106. Al-Hijr 15:10 [Publisher]