—namely His words in Sūrat al-Shūrā:
“Say: I believe in whatever scripture Allah has sent down, and I have been commanded to deal justly between you. Allah is our Lord and your Lord; we have our deeds and you have your deeds.” ⦗al-Shūrā: 15⦘—as noted earlier.

This is of the same kind as their statement about His words:
“This is the Book in which there is no doubt, a guidance for the God-fearing: those who believe in the unseen, establish the prayer, and spend out of what We have provided for them.” ⦗al-Baqarah: 2⦘.

They contend that “the Book” here means the Gospel; that “those who believe in the unseen” are the Christians; and that “those who believe in what has been sent down to you and what was sent down before you” are the Muslims—claiming that their reading is plain and self-evident.

The Christian exegesis of the divine scriptures contains such distortions of Allah’s words and such deviation concerning His names and His signs that describing it would take too long, and one’s amazement at it never ends. Yet their audacity in interpreting the Quran with the same distortion and deviation is even more astonishing, as when they say:
“Muḥammad—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—stated that he was not sent to us, that he praised the religion we follow even after it had been abrogated and altered following his own mission, and that…"