![]() ![]() It advocated kindness to parents, relatives, orphans and the poor in society. It required that the Israelites submit to, and worship God, other than whom there is no deity. Right at the outset, we learn that the covenant between God and the Israelites contained the fundamental and absolute tenets of Divine faith that were subsequently confirmed by Islam, which the Jews chose to oppose and deny. Reference has already been made to God’s covenant with the Israelites, and here we learn of more details of this covenant. Do you, then, believe in some parts of the Scriptures and deny others? Those of you who do this will have nothing for their reward other than ignominy in this life and, on the Day of Resurrection, they shall be committed to a most grievous suffering. Their expulsion is indeed forbidden to you. Had they come to you as captives you would have ransomed them. Yet there you are, slaying yourselves, and driving some of your own people out of their homes, collaborating against them in sin and injustice. ![]() You acknowledged all that and bore witness to it. ![]() We made a covenant with you that you shall not shed your own blood or drive yourselves out of your own homeland. We made this covenant with the Children of Israel: “ Worship none but God show kindness to parents and kinsfolk and to the orphans and the poor speak kindly to all people attend regularly to your prayers and pay the obligatory alms.’ But, except for a few, you turned away and paid no heed. The sūrah tells the Muslims more about the nature of the Jews and their crooked and devious ways while, at the same time, confronting the Jews themselves with these revelations. ![]()
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