The Holy Quran's Invitations to Christians

 

By Ali Unal

 

“Say: "People of the Book! Come now to a word common between us and you, that we serve none but Allah, and that we associate not aught with Him, and do not some of us take others as lords, say, "bear witness that we are Muslims".”(3:64)

“And with those who say “We are Christians" we had taken compact; and they have forgotten a portion of that they were reminded of, so We have stirred up among them enmity and hatred, till the Day of Resurrection; and Allah will assuredly tell them of the things they wrought.

People of the Book, now there has come to you Our Messenger, making clear to you many things you have been concealing of the Book, and effacing many things. There hascome to you from Allah a light, and a Book Manifest whereby Allah guides whosoever follows His good pleasure in the ways of peace, and brings them forth from the dark into the light by His leave; and He guides them to a straight path.

They are unbelievers who say "Allah is the Messiah, Mary's son." Say: "Who then shall overrule Allah in any way if He desires to destroy the Messiah, Mary's son, and His mother, and all those who are on earth?" For Allah belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and of the earth, and all that is between them, creating what He will. Allah is powerful over everything.

Say the Jews and Christians, "We are the sons of Allah, and His beloved ones." Say: "Why then does He chastise you for your sins?" No; you are mortals of His creating; He forgives whom He will, and He chastises whom He will. For to Allah belongs the kingdom of the heavens and of the earth, and all that is between them; to Him is the homecoming.

People of the Book, now there has come to you Our Messenger, making things clear to you, upon an interval between the Messengers lest you should say, "There has not come to us any bearer of good tidings, neither any warner. Indeed, there has come to you a bearer of good tidings and a warner. Allah is powerful over everything.”(5:14-19)