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Al-Baqarah 2: 99–102

(99) We surely sent down to you clear verses that elucidate the Truth, (verses) which only the transgressors reject as false. (100) Is it not that every time they made a covenant with Allah a party of them set it aside? The truth is that most of them do not truly believe. (101) And whenever a Messenger from Allah came to them, confirming what they already possessed, a party of those who had been given the Scripture flung the Book of Allah behind their backs as if they knew nothing, (102) and then followed what the evil ones falsely attributed to the Kingdom of Solomon even though Solomon had never disbelieved; it is the evil ones who disbelieved, teaching people magic. And they followed what had been revealed to the two angels in Babylon – Harut and Marut – although these two (angels) never taught it to anyone without first declaring: “We are merely a means of testing people; so, do not engage in unbelief.”35 ▶

35 There are various opinions on the interpretation of this verse. My own conclusion is that at the time when the whole Israelite nation was chained in

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