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Say; “Surely Allah's guidance, that is the ( true ) guidance”. And if you follow their desires after the knowledge that has come to you, you shall have no guardian from Allah, nor any helper (120) . Those to whom We have given the Book read it as it aught to be read. These ( it is who ) believe in it; and whoever disbelieves in it, these it is that are the losers (121) . O Children of Israel, call to mind My bounty which I bestowed on you and that I made you excel the nations (122) .

And be on your guard against a day when no soul shall avail another in the least neither shall any compensation be accepted from it, nor shall intercession profit it nor shall they be helped (123). Commentary Qur’an: And the Jews will not be pleased with you, nor the Christians... : The Speaker turns again to the two groups, after a cursory glance at the others. These two verses give the sum and substance of the foregoing talk.

After all those admoni­tions and reprimands of the Jews and the Christians, Allah turns to His Apostle and says: They will never be pleased with you until you follow their religion which they have invented according to their desires, composed of their own opinions. Then He orders him to confute their views and tell them: “Surely Allah's guid­ance, that is the (true) guidance”. Why should a man follow the other for guidance?

And the only guidance is the guidance of Allah; that is the truth which must be followed. There is no guidance in any thing else; and certainly not in your religion. And what is that religion? Just an amalgam of your desires glorified as religion.