OCCASION OF REVELATION (VERSE NO. 76)

      As to the cause of the revelation HAZRAT IMAM BAGHER (AS) said: ``A group of the Jews who were not enemies to truth, when meeting Muslims, they mentioned the prophecies and predictions that was in their scriptures about a prophet like Moses, who was promised to come. The elders of the Jews, and the rabbins, knew that and prohibited them from passing the informations, or what they called the secret knowledge of their book; to Muslims. They said: Do not speak to Muslims of what our Lord God has revealed to you so that they may not use it against you in argument before your Lord''

THE COMMENTS

      The verse (NO. 76) uncovers another fact that the clean-hearted

Jews in meeting with Muslims disclosed the prophecies of the BIBLE about Mohammad, but when they met each others in private, those hypocrite Jews who played a double role tried to keep back any knowledge of their own scriptures, lest they should be trapped by their arguments before God in the Dooms Day! This, evidently shows how weak these Jews were in their faith, for taking God a man as ordinary as themselves, thinking that if they did conceal something from the Muslims, It would also be hidden from God! This is why in the following verse (NO. 77) God says:

``Know they not that Allah knows what they conceal and what they reveal.''