With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 88
88 With Love to Muhammad sa the Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n otherwise of certain things and that by their iniquities and transgressions they had deprived themselves of certain divine blessings. Jesus thus came as a judge to decide in what matters the Jews had deviated from the right path and to tell them that the blessings of which they had been deprived would be restored to them, if they followed him. Among Isl ā mic sources the following well-known Commentaries support our interpretation of the verse: “Jesus did not abrogate any portion of the Torah; he simply made lawful to the Jews those things about which they used to disagree among themselves through error” (Kath ī r, under present verse). Again, “The words, that which was forbidden to you, refer to those things which the learned men after Moses had declared to be unlawful, giving the innovation the force of Law; Jesus restored the true commandments of the Torah, as they had been revealed by God” (Muh ī t). Yet again, “Jesus followed the Law of Moses. He used to observe the Sabbath, and turn his face to the Temple and he used to say to the Jews, I do not teach you even a single word which is not in accord with the Law of Moses; I only remove from you the burden laid on you as a result of the innovations you made after Moses” (Fath). 77 In other words, it is ridiculous to assume that Jesus as had the authority to modify the law and this also shatters the argument of Farhan Khan who should pay more attention to the study of 77 The Holy Quran with English Translation and Commentary (Isl ā mabad, Isl ā m International Publications Ltd. , 1988), Volume 1, Page 404