he did not abrogate; therefore, they cannot act on the Torah or derive any legal benefit from it until they distinguish what has been abrogated from what has not.

Most of them, however, have no knowledge of this. At that point they were following no divinely revealed law at all—neither the law of Christ nor that of Moses—for they simply did not know it. Indeed, this was unknown to the general populace, to the great majority of them, if not to all of them. They were thus in need of someone who would show them what God had prescribed and what He had not. Consequently, God sent Muhammad—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—with a law that commands the finest teachings contained in the two Scriptures and provides, in place of whatever it abrogates, something even better.