The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 186
186. Essence of Islam-IV people have been called the 'best of people' in the. Holy Qur'an, and it would be the height of disgrace for them that part of them should become Jews and that 'Īsā should come from outside Islam. If it is true that the majority of the Muslim divines will at some time become Jews, that is to say, will take on the characteristics of Jews, then this also is true that for the reform of such Jews, ‘Īsā will not come from outside, but just as some individuals have been named. Jews, in contrast to them, one individual will be called 'Īsā. . It cannot be denied that both the Qur'an and Ḥadīth have named some people from among the Muslims as. Jews, as is indicated by the verse: 105 غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ ؟. If it were not destined that some Muslims would take on the characteristics of the Jews, we would not have been taught this prayer. Ever since God has sent down revealed books, it is the Divine practice that if He forbids a people doing certain things as, for instance: do not commit adultery; do not commit theft; or do not become Jews; such commands have latent in them the prophecy that some of them would be guilty of those sins. No one can produce a single instance where God forbade a people from committing an offence and all of them refrained from committing it. . Some of them necessarily become guilty of commit105 Those who have not incurred Thy displeasure. -Al-Fatihah, 1:7 [Publisher]