156أَن تَقولوا إِنَّما أُنزِلَ الكِتابُ عَلىٰ طائِفَتَينِ مِن قَبلِنا وَإِن كُنّا عَن دِراسَتِهِم لَغافِلينَMuhammad Asad[It has been given to you] lest you say, "Only unto two groups of people, [both of them] before our time, has a divine writ been bestowed from on high1 - and we were indeed unaware of their teachings";I.e., to the Jews and the Christians, who were the only two communities known to the Arabs as possessing revealed scriptures.