Al-Hijr
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.[15:90]
(Of just such wrath) as We sent down on those who divided (Scripture into arbitrary parts),-

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* v.90 : The Commentators differ as to the precise signification of verses 90 and 91. Are the persons referred to in the two verses the same, or different? And who were they? I adopt the view, for which there is good authority, that the two classes of persons were different but similar. Verse 90, I think, refers to the Jews and Christians, who took out of Scripture what suited them, and ignored or rejected the rest: ii. 85, 101. For verse 91 see next note.