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الآية رقم (113) - وَقَالَتِ الْيَهُودُ لَيْسَتِ النَّصَارَى عَلَىَ شَيْءٍ وَقَالَتِ النَّصَارَى لَيْسَتِ الْيَهُودُ عَلَى شَيْءٍ وَهُمْ يَتْلُونَ الْكِتَابَ كَذَلِكَ قَالَ الَّذِينَ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ مِثْلَ قَوْلِهِمْ فَاللّهُ يَحْكُمُ بَيْنَهُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ فِيمَا كَانُواْ فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ

(113) - “The Jews say ‘The Christians have nothing [true] to stand on,’ and the Christians say, ‘The Jews have nothing to stand on,’ although they [both] recite the Scripture. Thus, the polytheists speak the same as their words. But Allah will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that over which they used to differ.”

And during the time when Islam came, there were two religions. They were Judaism and Christianity. And it is from the natural tendency of human beings from every group to say that the other has no basis. And that history has recorded the attitude of the Christians with respect to the Muslims, among which is the protection given by the Negus, King of Ethiopia, to the Muslims and those with them and he was a Christian. Also, when the conquering army came to Syria, the Orthodox Christians stood united next to the Muslims to overthrow the Romans from Syria. Also, how the orthodox Christians stood by with Salahudin Al-Ayoubi. Hence the society that was built in this city, was built by the Muslims and the Christians. Hence we do not accept from anyone who wants to harm the Christians by using misconstrued interpretations of the Qur’an. As such, our noble book honours the Christians as how it honours the Messiah Isa, Son of Maryam and his mother u.

As for affairs of belief, we leave it to the Lord of Mankind as He will be the One to hold people to account as to their beliefs. And if the Jews and the Christians differ amongst themselves then Allah will be the One to judge between them and not us.