Islam Guidance

verse77

(77) قُلْ يَا أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ لاَ تَغْلُواْ فِي دِينِكُمْ غَيْرَ الْحَقِّ وَلاَ تَتَّبِعُواْ أَهْوَاء قَوْمٍ قَدْ ضَلُّواْ مِن

قَبْلُ وَأَضَلُّواْ كَثِيرًا وَضَلُّواْ عَن سَوَاء السَّبِيلِ

77. " Say: ' O' People of the Book! do not exagerate in your religion other than the truth, and do not follow the vain desires of the people who had gone astray aforetime, and led many astray, and went astray from the right path."

Commentary:
In this verse following to the manifestation of the fault of the people of the Book in the field of exaggeration about Divine prophets, the holy Prophet (p.b.u.h.) is commanded to invite them, with clear reasonings that they formally return from this way. The verse says:
" Say: ' O' People of the Book! do not exagerate in your religion other than the truth, ..."
The exageration of the Christians is clear, of course, but the exageration of the Jews, who are also involved in those whom the Qur'an addresses to by the phrase: " O' People of the Book! , is probably a hint to the statement they said about prophet Ezra (a.s.) and considered him the son of Allah.
And, since the origine of exageration is often following the vain desires of the misguided ones, to complete this meaning, the verse continues saying:
"...and do not follow the vain desires of the people who had gone astray aforetime, and led many astray, and went astray from the right path."
This phrase points to the fact that this meaning is recorded in the history of the Christianity, too. The idea of trinity and exageration about Jesus (a.s.) was not mainly found among them in the early centuries of the Christianity. When the Indian Idolaters, and the like, joined the religion of Christ, they added something from the remaining belief of the former creed, viz. trinity and polytheism, to the Christianity.

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