and they allow their senior figures—those whom they have come to regard as towering authorities in religion—to frame fresh legislation for them and to repeal part of what they had followed before. They do not refer their religious disputes back to Allah and His messengers in such a way as to prevent anyone from departing from Allah’s revealed Books, such as the Torah and the Gospel, or from abandoning adherence to what the Messiah and the prophets before him—peace be upon them—brought.

For this reason the Exalted One said:
“Say, People of the Scripture, you have no ground to stand on until you uphold the Torah, the Gospel, and what has been sent down to you from your Lord.” (Al-Ma’idah 5:68)

What their leaders have set up for them by way of religious codes and canonical statutes—some of it they ascribe to the prophets, some of it to the disciples, yet much of it is not traced back to either the prophets or the disciples at all; it is purely the fabrication and innovation of their own notables.

Thus they invented for them the Amāna (creed) that forms the very foundation of their belief, they invented the prayer towards the east, they invented the permissibility of pork, and the rest of