A call from God to the People of the book (Jews and Christians)

From:
http://quranandhebrewbible.t35.com/english2.htm#A_Call_from_God_to_the_People_of_the_Bible_

God-be exalted- said in the Quran, chapter 5: 15-16
يَا أَهْلَ الْكِتَابِ قَدْ جَاءكُمْ رَسُولُنَا يُبَيِّنُ لَكُمْ كَثِيرًا مِّمَّا كُنتُمْ تُخْفُونَ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ وَيَعْفُو عَن كَثِيرٍ قَدْ جَاءكُم مِّنَ اللّهِ نُورٌ وَكِتَابٌ مُّبِينٌ . يَهْدِي بِهِ اللّهُ مَنِ اتَّبَعَ رِضْوَانَهُ سُبُلَ السَّلاَمِ وَيُخْرِجُهُم مِّنِ الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ بِإِذْنِهِ وَيَهْدِيهِمْ إِلَى صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ
The explanation:(15- O people of the Scripture [:Jews and Christians], now has Our messenger[, Mohammed,] come expounding to you many things in the Scripture that you have been hiding, and many things else he disregards. There has come to you light from God and a clear ‘Book’[: the Quran.]
16-Whereby God guides him who seeks His good pleasure to the paths of safety, and brings them out of darkness to light with His leave, and guides them to a standard path.)
Therefore, the messenger is Mohammed, and the plain Scripture or Book is the Quran(1),and his saying-be exalted-
يُبَيِّنُ لَكُمْ كَثِيرًا مِّمَّا كُنتُمْ تُخْفُونَ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ
I.e. (expounding to you many things in the scripture that you have been hiding) means: of the laws of the Torah. In addition, the Quran guides to a “straight and standard” path, means: to the religion of the truth. [ see the note on the following page.]
((some of the laws of the Torah, concealed by Jews))
Now, I tell you some of the laws of the Torah, hidden by Jews, and their alteration of its orders according to their own desires. Some of these alterations are : the washing after copulation, drinking of wine, and taking of the usury… etc.

The Washing after Copulation
It is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Leviticus, chapter 15, the following:
“16-The man from whom the seed of copulation goes out, shall wash all his body with water: and he shall be unclean until the evening.
17-The garment or skin that he wears he shall wash with water: and it shall be unclean until the evening.
18-The woman, with whom he copulates, shall be washed with water: and shall be unclean until the evening.”
But the Jews hid this, and said this is special for the priests.

The Drinking of Wine
Moreover, they drink the wine, and say: this is permitted for us; while God-be exalted- forbade it in their Torah. Now, I tell you what is mentioned about the prohibition of wine, that is

>> in the Book of Proverbs, chapter 23: 29-35
“29-Who hath woe? Whose father hath woe? Who hath contentions? Who falls into pits? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
30-Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink off their cups.
31-Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shines in the glass. It goes in pleasantly.
32-But in the end it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad its poison like a basilisk.
33-The eyes shall behold strange women: and your heart shall utter perverse things.
34-And you shall be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep, when the stern is lost.
35-And you shall say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not. When shall I awake, and find wine again?”

>> In addition, it is mentioned in the Book of Isaiah, chapter4:
“11-Woe to you that rise up in the morning to follow drunkenness and to drink till the evening, to be inflamed with wine.
12-The harp and the lyre and the timbler and the pipe and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of His hands.
13-Therefore is my people led away captive, because they had not knowledge: and their nobles have perished with famine, and their multitude were dried up with thirst.
14-Therefore, has hell enlarged her soul and opened her mouth without any hands… etc.”

Taking the Usury
While as regards their taking usury,
>> it is mentioned in the Book of Leviticus, chapter 25: 35-37
“35-If your brother be impoverished, and weak of hand and you receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with you.
36-Take not usury of him nor more than you gave. Fear your God, that your brother may live with you.
37-You shall not give him your money upon usury: nor exact of him any increase of fruits.”

>> Moreover, it is mentioned in the Book of Ezekiel, chapter 22:
“11-… the brother has oppressed his sister, the daughter of his father, in you.
12-They have taken gifts in you to shed blood: you have taken usury and increase and have covetously oppressed your neighbors: and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.”
But, actually, they accept the bribe and they take the usury, and they don’t mind about committing such disobedience.
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(1) But Jews did not believe in the messenger nor in the Quran; however they denied him just as had
they denied their prophets before, and they hurt him and helped the polytheists or idolaters: the Meccans] to fight him, just as had they hurt their prophets before and fought them. Therefore, now repent to your Lord and believe in all the messengers of God and do not deny them in order to succeed in the Hereafter, and in order not to lose as did your fathers lose who denied the messengers of God, and you- certainly- have known how God revenged on them by the hands of their enemies in the life of the World, while a great chastisement is for them in the Hereafter.