Surah 1-2 - YasSarNal QuR'aN

Al-Baqarah (The Cow) | COVENANTS BREACHED ALL THE TIMEprophets, if you were true believers?’ Moses came to you with clear proof, but in his absenceyou transgressed, worshipping the calf. We accepted your solemn pledge, and We raisedMount Sinai above you, saying, ‘Take with firmness and strength what We have given youand hearken to it.’ They said, ‘We hear but we disobey.’ For their unbelief they were made todrink the calf into their hearts. Say, ‘Vile is that which your faith enjoins upon you, if indeedyou are believers.’” (Verses 91-93)They also alleged that paradise belongs to them alone, in preference to all people.God instructs the Prophet Muĥammad to challenge them to open appeal in whichthey and the Muslims would meet and pray to God together to destroy the party thatis lying: “Say: ‘If the ultimate abode with God is yours alone, to the exclusion of all others,then wish for death, if your claim is true.’” (Verse 94)He also states very clearly that they would never wish for death. This proved to betrue. When challenged for such a public appeal, they declined, because they realizedthat their claims were false.The sūrah continues with this confrontation, exposure of the Israelites andinstructions to the Muslims. Such a line was certain to weaken and foil the Jewishwicked schemes against the Muslims. All their devious designs were laid bare.Through knowledge of their old history, the Muslim community was able to exposetheir insidious methods.Even today, the Muslim community continues to be the target of such Jewishmethods. Unfortunately, the Muslim community today does not follow in thefootsteps of its forefathers who implemented the Qur’ānic directives. It was onlythrough such implementation that they were able to overcome the wicked schemes ofthe Jews of Madinah, even though the Muslim community was still in its infancy.Persisting with their wicked designs, the Jews continue to try to turn the Muslimsaway from the Qur’ān so that they would not derive from it their most effectiveweapons. As long as the Muslim community turns its back to its source of true powerand pure knowledge, they feel safe. Therefore, anyone who tries to divert the Muslimcommunity away from its faith and from the Qur’ān serves, knowingly and willinglyor not, the Israeli aims. It is only through its true faith, its law and method of actionthat the Muslim community derives its true power. When it abandons these, itsenemies are assured of their safety and victory.Falsification of ScripturesDo you hope that they will accept your message when some of them would listen to theword of God then, having understood them, knowingly distort it? When they meet thebelievers, they say, ‘We believe,’ but when they find themselves alone, they say to oneanother, Need you inform them that which God has disclosed to you? They will only92