The Quran

Preface

وَمِنَ الَّذينَ قالوا إِنّا نَصارىٰ أَخَذنا ميثاقَهُم فَنَسوا حَظًّا مِمّا ذُكِّروا بِهِ فَأَغرَينا بَينَهُمُ العَداوَةَ وَالبَغضاءَ إِلىٰ يَومِ القِيامَةِ ۚ وَسَوفَ يُنَبِّئُهُمُ اللَّهُ بِما كانوا يَصنَعونَ

Yusuf Ali

From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a Covenant,¹ but they forgot a good part of the message that was sent them: so we estranged them, with enmity and hatred between the one and the other, to the day of judgment. And soon will God715-A show them what it is they have done.

The Christian Covenant may be taken to be the charge which Jesus gave to his disciples, and which the disciples accepted, to welcome Ahmad (Q. 61:6). Glimpses of this are to be found in the Gospel of St. John even as it exists now (John 15:26, 16:7). It is those who call themselves “Christians” who reject this. True Christians have accepted it The enmity between those who call themselves Christains and the Jews will continue till the Last Day, (Cf. 5:64).