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) — Tafsir Usmani

Distorting the Torah for gain: these are the people who would invent things of their own to suit those ignorant common folk, write them down and attribute them to Allah. For example, the Torah said: “The Prophet of the Last Age ﷺ will be born handsome, with curly hair, black eyes, of medium height and of wheat-coloured complexion”; they altered it and…

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