Used alongside Quran 4:136 to argue that right guidance in Islam requires belief in the prior books as well as the Quran.
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Quran 2:2-5
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2 That is the Book, wherein is no doubt, a guidance to the godfearing 3 who believe in the Unseen, and perform the prayer, and expend of that We have provided them; 4 who believe in what has been sent down to thee and what has been sent down before thee, and have faith in the Hereafter; 5 those are upon guidance from their Lord, those are the ones who prosper.
The host cited these verses to argue that the Quran makes belief in earlier revelations such as the Torah and Gospel part of right guidance and success, against Muslim dismissal of prior scriptures.
Read to argue that truly guided Muslims must believe both what was revealed to Muhammad and what was revealed before him, not the Quran alone.
Used to argue that the Quran defines true believers as those who believe both in the Quran and in what was revealed before it, not merely that earlier revelations once existed.