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Al [Imran 3: 50–2

I will also inform you of what things you eat and what you treasure up in your houses. Surely this is a Sign for you if you are true believers. (50) And I have come to confirm the truth of whatever there still remains of the Torah, and to make lawful to you some of the things which had been forbidden to you.13 I have come to you with a Sign from your Lord; so have fear of Allah and obey me. (51) Surely, Allah is my Lord and your Lord; so serve Him alone. This is the Straight Way.”

(52) And when Jesus per- ceived their leaning towards unbelief, he asked: “Who will be my helpers in the Way of Allah?” The disciples14 said: “We are the helpers of Allah.15 ▶

13 What Jesus wanted to impress upon them was that he would abolish the prohibitive innovations which had infiltrated the original Divine Law (Shari[ah). These innovations were the result of the superstitions of their ignorant commoners, the legal hair-splitting of their lawyers, and the exaggerations of their world-renouncing pietists. He also made it clear that in determining what is lawful and unlawful, he would be guided by the injunctions of God and not by the inventions of human beings.

14 The word hawari means approximately the same as the word ansar in the Islamic tradition.

15 That is, they are his allies in the cause of directing people to the Path of God.

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