| What exactly are the tauraat and injeel? This has been one of the many questions plaguing my mind for some time now. Though I daresay I am far from having absolute answers I do have a 'theory' regarding these things. To most these things are books, manuscripts. To me and a very small minority these things are not so much so books that are written on parchment, but rather something written on the people in some manner. The tauraat seems to be something that speaks to the strict observance of the laws, rules, regulations, or methods. In 48:29 the example of the believers in al-tauraat is as those who are marked by their submissions. In 62:5 it seems to be pointing out that tauraat is indeed a strict observence of the laws/rules, etc because those who fail to uphold it are regarded as asses who hold the laws in little worth and reject them, thus it is just a burden for them. Another thing comes to mind when thinking of tauraat, it is a body of judgements/laws and it calls for equal retribution of a hurt. This seems to confirm the basic laws of nature, the laws of equality. Injeel seems to be something that is a result of tauraat. Injeel seems to be the success that comes from the observance of the laws/rules. In 48:29 the example in Injeel is that of a fruitful sprouting which causes hatred in one's enemies. 3:3 He sent down to you the Scripture with truth, authenticating what is present with it; and He sent down the Torah and the Injeel 3:4 from before as a guidance for the people, and He sent down the Criterion. Those who rejected God's revelations, they will have a painful retribution, and God is Noble, extracting in Revenge. 3:48 And He teaches him the Scripture and the Wisdom and the Torah and the Injeel. 3:65 "O people of the scripture, why do you debate us regarding Abraham when the Torah and the Injeel were not sent down except after him? Do you not understand?" 3:93 All the food was made lawful to the Children of Israel except what Israel forbade for himself before the Torah was sent down. Say: "Bring the Torah and recite it if you are truthful." 5:43 And how can they make you their judge when they have the Torah, in which is God's judgment; then they turn away after that. Those are not believers. 5:44 We have sent down the Torah, in it is guidance and a light; the prophets who have surrendered judged with it for those who are Jews, as well as the rabbis, and the priests, for what they were entrusted of God's Scripture, and they were witness over. So do not fear the people but fear Me; and do not purchase with My revelations a cheap price. And whoever does not judge with what God Has sent down, then these are the rejecters. 5:45 And We have decreed for them in it that a life for a life, and an eye for an eye, and a nose for a nose, and an ear for an ear, and a tooth for a tooth, and that wounds to be similar; and whoever remits anything of it, then it will cancel sins for him. And whoever does not judge by what God Has sent down, then these are the wicked. 5:46 And We sent in their footsteps Jesus the son of Mary, authenticating what was present with him of the Torah. And We gave him the Injeel, in it is guidance and light, and to authenticate what is present with him of the Torah, and a guidance and lesson for the righteous. 5:47 And let the people of the Injeel judge with what God has sent down in it. And whoever does not judge by what God Has sent down, then these are the vile ones. 5:66 And if they had upheld the Torah and the Injeel, and what was sent down to them from their Lord, they would have been able rewarded from above them and below their feet. From among them is a pious nation, but most of them only do evil. 5:68 Say: "O people of the Scripture, you are about nothing until you uphold the Torah and the Injeel and what was sent down to you from your Lord." And for many of them, what was sent down to you from your Lord will only increase them in transgression and rejection. So do not feel sorry for the rejecting people. 5:110 God said: "O Jesus son of Mary, recall My blessings upon you and your mother that I supported you with the Holy Spirit; you spoke to the people in the cradle and in old age; and I taught you the scripture and the wisdom, and the Torah, and the Injeel; and you would create from clay the shape of a bird, then blow into it and it becomes a bird by My leave; and you healed the blind and the leaper by My leave; and you brought out the dead by My leave. And I have restrained the Children of Israel from you, that you came to them with proofs; but those who rejected amongst them said: "This is clearly magic!"" 7:157 "Those who follow the gentile messenger prophet whom they find written for them in the Torah and the Injeel; he orders them to goodness, and deters them from evil, and he makes lawful for them the good things, and he forbids for them the evil, and he removes their burden and the shackles that are upon them. So those who believe in him, and honour him, and support him, and follow the light that was sent down with him; these are the successful." 9:111 God Has purchased from the believers their very lives and their wealth, that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of God so they kill and are killed. A promise that is true upon Him in the Torah and the Injeel and the Quran. And whoever fulfills his pledge to God, then have good news of the deal which you concluded with. Such is the supreme success. 48:29 Muhammad is the messenger of God, and those who are with him are severe against the rejecters, but merciful between themselves. You see them yielding and submitting, they seek God's blessings and approval. Their distinction is in their faces, as a result of submitting. Such is their example in the Torah. And their example in the Injeel is like a plant which shoots out and becomes strong and thick and it stands straight on its stem, pleasing to the farmers that He may enrage the rejecters with them. God promises those among them who believe and do good works a forgiveness and a great reward. 62:5 The example of those who were given the Torah, then failed to uphold it, is like the donkey carrying great works of literature. Miserable indeed is the example of people who rejected God's revelations. God does not guide the wicked people. What do we know of tauraat and injeel from what we are given in al-quran? |