And they say, ‘None will enter Paradise except

الآية رقم (111) - وَقَالُواْ لَن يَدْخُلَ الْجَنَّةَ إِلاَّ مَن كَانَ هُوداً أَوْ نَصَارَى تِلْكَ أَمَانِيُّهُمْ قُلْ هَاتُواْ بُرْهَانَكُمْ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ

(111) - “And they say, ‘None will enter Paradise except one who is a Jew or a Christian.’ That is [merely] their wishful thinking, Say, ‘Produce your proof, if you should be truthful.’”

It is a principle in our belief that whenever we see a verse that mentions the Jews and the Christians, we need to distinguish between the Jews and the Christians on account of their position with the Muslims. And there are those who try to distort the bond between the Muslims and the Christians. Whenever the verses speak about the people of the Book, the Jews are blamed and their animosity against the Muslims is mentioned, as Allah U says:

﴾لَتَجِدَنَّ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَدَاوَةً لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا الْيَهُودَ﴿

“You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews” [Surah Al-Ma’idah: 82].