The Holy Quran 2:79 — Surah Al-Baqarah

Arabic text

فَوَيْلٌ لِّلَّذِينَ يَكْتُبُونَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ ثُمَّ يَقُولُونَ هَـٰذَا مِنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ لِيَشْتَرُوا۟ بِهِۦ ثَمَنًا قَلِيلًا ۖ فَوَيْلٌ لَّهُم مِّمَّا كَتَبَتْ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَوَيْلٌ لَّهُم مِّمَّا يَكْسِبُونَ

Translation

May those people be destroyed who write the Book with their hands (dreaming up the words) and then say, "This is from Allaah,” so that they may sell it for a worthless price (for a small commercial profit). May they be destroyed because of what their hands write and may they be destroyed because of what (bribes) they earn. (This verse refers to the Jewish scholars who changed the text of the Torah that described Rasulullaah as well as the text that sentenced the married adulterer to death by stoning. Besides this, they changed several other texts as well. They did this for the benefit of the people who bribed them.)

Tafsir (excerpt) — التفسير الميسر

فهلاك ووعيد شديد لأحبار السوء من اليهود الذين يكتبون الكتاب بأيديهم، ثم يقولون: هذا من عند الله وهو مخالف لما أنزل الله على نبيِّه موسى عليه الصلاة والسلام; ليأخذوا في مقابل هذا عرض الدنيا. فلهم عقوبة مهلكة بسبب كتابتهم هذا الباطل بأيديهم، ولهم عقوبة مهلكة بسبب ما يأخذونه في المقابل من المال الحرام، كالرشوة وغيرها.

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