Note, that the Tourât is in this text again called "The Book of God,"— كتاب الله

سورة المائدة

قُلْ يَا أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ هَلْ تَنقِمُونَ مِنَّا إِلاَّ أَنْ آمَنَّا بِاللّهِ وَمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْنَا وَمَا أُنزِلَ مِن قَبْلُ وَأَنَّ أَكْثَرَكُمْ فَاسِقُونَ

Say,—O People of the Book! is there any other cause of your enmity against us, but that we believe in God, and in that which hath been revealed unto us, and in that which hath been revealed from before?—but the most of you are evil doers.

سورة المائدة

وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ آمَنُواْ وَاتَّقَوْاْ لَكَفَّرْنَا عَنْهُمْ سَيِّئَاتِهِمْ وَلأدْخَلْنَاهُمْ جَنَّاتِ النَّعِيمِ
وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ أَقَامُواْ التَّوْرَاةَ وَالإِنجِيلَ وَمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيهِم مِّن رَّبِّهِمْ لأكَلُواْ مِن فَوْقِهِمْ وَمِن تَحْتِ أَرْجُلِهِم مِّنْهُمْ أُمَّةٌ مُّقْتَصِدَةٌ وَكَثِيرٌ مِّنْهُمْ سَاء مَا يَعْمَلُونَ

Note, that the "setting up" or "careful observance of the Tourât and of the Gospel," as well as of the Corân, by Jews and Christians, is insisted upon in this text as elsewhere. To the Jews and Christians who shall thus carefully maintain the ordinances of the Old and New Testaments, as well as of the Corân, the choicest blessings are here guaranteed:— pardon of sin; —entrance into gardens of delight;—an abundant provision "from above, and from beneath their feet." Some of these Jews and Christians are praised as a "righteous and upright people" (أمة مقتصدة) Would not such Jews and Christians act up to the description given of them by the Prophet, and hand down uncorrupted to their posterity those Sacred books by the careful observance of which they had merited so high a distinction and so rich a reward?

Alas! how differently from their Prophet do many of his followers in the present day, speak of these same Scriptures!

سورة المائدة

قُلْ يَا أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ لَسْتُمْ عَلَى شَيْءٍ حَتَّىَ تُقِيمُواْ التَّوْرَاةَ وَالإِنجِيلَ وَمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكُم مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ