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Ch. i.]
THE OPENING
7
Or, other than. 7 Not those upon whom wrath is brought down, nor those who go astray.[1] غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا الضَّالِّينَ ۝٧
  1. The Holy Prophet is reported to have said: Those upon whom wrath is brought down are the Jews and those who go astray are the Christians (AH). Of course the words are only explanatory and do not limit the significance of the original words used. The Holy Prophet made the Arabs realize by the case of the two peoples whom they knew well how men sometimes desert the right or the middle path, leaning to either extreme, the Jews rejecting Jesus Christ, a righteous servant of God, as a liar, while the Christians went to the other extreme and raised that same mortal to the dignity of Godhead. Islam inculcated that the middle path was to be followed, neither leaning to the side of hatred nor being excessive in love, because the former brings down Divine wrath as it did in the case of the Jews and the latter leads a man astray as it led the Christians.