Shaykh al-Islām—may Allah sanctify his soul—also said:

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Allah divided those whom He condemned among the People of the Book into those who distort Scripture and those who are unlearned, saying:

“Do you then hope that they will believe you, when a group of them used to hear the words of Allah and then knowingly distort them after understanding them?”

“When they meet those who believe, they say, ‘We believe.’ But when they are alone with one another, they say, ‘Do you tell them what Allah has revealed to you, so that they may use it to argue against you before your Lord? Will you not then understand?’”

“Do they not know that Allah knows what they conceal and what they reveal?”

“Among them are unlearned people who know nothing of the Scripture beyond mere recitation, and they do nothing but conjecture.”

“So woe to those who write the Scripture with their own hands and then say, ‘This is from Allah,’ to gain a small price for it! Woe to them for what their hands have written, and woe to them for what they earn!”

In this is a lesson for those of our community who follow their path; for those who deviate in