The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 1) — Page 191
PT. 1 AL-BAQARAH CH. 2 اَوَكُلَّمَا عُهَدُوا عَهْدًا نَّبَذَهُ فَرِيقٌ What every time they. 101 مِّنْهُم بَلْ اَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ. make a covenant, will a party among them throw it aside? Nay, most of them have no faith. 107 وَلَمَّا جَاءَهُمْ رَسُولٌ مِّنْ عِنْدِ اللهِ And now when there has. 102 come to them a Messenger from مُصَدِّقُ لِمَا مَعَهُمْ نَبَذَ فَرِيقٌ مِّنَ الَّذِينَ Allah, fulfilling that which is أوتُوا الكِتب كتب اللهِ وَرَاء with them, a party of the people ظُهُورِهِمْ كَأَنَّهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ) to whom the Book was given Chave thrown the Book of Allah behind their backs, as if they know it not. 108 "3:188. "See 2:90. 3:188. according to the Quran, the Prophet of Islam showed no Signs. The greatest of the Signs shown by the Holy Prophet is the matchlessness of the Quran itself. The word (the disobedient) occurring at the end of this verse means "those who first take upon themselves to observe what the Law orders and acknowledge its authority and then go against it" (Lane). This is a true picture of the Jews who rejected the Holy Prophet in spite of the fact that his coming had been foretold in their own Scriptures. 107. Commentary: See under next verse. 108. Commentary: As pointed out in the preceding verse, the Jews had pledged themselves to their own Prophets that they would accept the Prophet who was to appear from among their 191 Ishmaelites, in brethren, the fulfilment of the prophecies mentioned in the Bible. But although all the signs mentioned in the prophecies concerning the promised Prophet had been fulfilled in the person of the Holy Prophet, yet they persisted in their denial and thus broke their promise and belied their own Scriptures. The word has been construed to mean: (1) that the Quran declares the Bible to be true, and (2) that the Quran fulfils the prophecies contained in the Bible. The latter meaning only is applicable here. For here the People of the Book are spoken of as casting the Book of God (the Torah) behind their backs as a result of the fulfilment of its prophecies in the Quran. This cannot be the case, if we follow the first meaning ascribed to the word; for if the Quran declared the Bible to be