Quoted to argue that Muslims must believe in all of Allah's books, making it a problem for Islam to dismiss the earlier scriptures as corrupted.
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Quran 4:136
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136 O believers, believe in God and His Messenger and the Book He has sent down on His Messenger and the Book which He sent down before. Whoso disbelieves in God and His angels and His Books, and His Messengers, and the Last Day, has surely gone astray into far error.
Read aloud in response to a Muslim challenge to show that the Quran explicitly commands belief in the scripture revealed before Muhammad.
The host cited this verse to argue the Quran explicitly requires belief in Allah's books, not just the Quran, and that denying them means going astray, which he used against the Muslim claim that earlier scriptures can be set aside.
Quoted to argue Muslims must believe in Allah's books and scriptures revealed before; the speaker used it against the claim that prior scriptures can simply be denied wholesale.
This verse was read to argue that believers must believe not only in the Quran but also in the scriptures sent down before it, challenging the idea that prior books can simply be ignored.