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"Moses... brought tidings of joy unto the people of Israel. To this testify the records of the sacred books... (But) it is not Our wish to relate the stories of the days that are past. God is Our witness that what we even now mention is solely... that the ignorant be led unto the ocean of divine knowledge... Otherwise, this servant regardeth the consideration of such records a grave mistake and grievous transgression." (Iqan 63) (97:6)

"By corruption of the text is meant that in which all Muslim divines are engaged today, that is the interpretation of God's holy Book in accordance with their idle imaginings and their vain desires. And as the Jews, in the time of Muhammad, interpreted those verses of the Pentateuch, that referred to His Manifestation, after their own fancy... the charge of 'perverting' the text was therefore pronounced against them." (Iqan 86- 7) (97:7)

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