The Holy Quran 3:78 — Surah Ali 'Imran

Arabic text

وَإِنَّ مِنْهُمْ لَفَرِيقًا يَلْوُۥنَ أَلْسِنَتَهُم بِٱلْكِتَـٰبِ لِتَحْسَبُوهُ مِنَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ وَمَا هُوَ مِنَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ وَيَقُولُونَ هُوَ مِنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ وَمَا هُوَ مِنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ وَيَقُولُونَ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ ٱلْكَذِبَ وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ

Translation

Indeed among them (among the Ahlul Kitaab) is a party who twist their tongues with (when reciting) the Book (the Torah) so that you may regard it (the fabrications that they recite) as part of the Book when it is really not part of the Book. (by their false tone and faulty manner of reading) They say that it is from Allaah when it is not (at all) from Allaah and they knowingly lie about Allaah.

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Distortion of the text of the Word of Allah: here the distortion practised by the People of the Book is described. That is, they add to or take away from the heavenly Book things of their own making and recite them in such a manner and tone that an uninformed listener is deceived and thinks that this too is the text of the heavenly Book.

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