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It is said they are 'clothed in sackcloth', meaning that they, apparently, were to be clothed in old raiment, not in new raiment; in other words, in the beginning they would possess no splendour in the eyes of the people, nor would their Cause appear new; for Muhammad's spiritual Law corresponds to that of Christ in the Gospel, and most of His laws relating to material things correspond to those of the Pentateuch. This is the meaning of the old raiment. (Some Answered Questions 49) (82:3) Some Christians had long believed that the transgression against the sanctuary of the Temple was a symbol of the corrupting of the Faith of God.
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