Wa 'alaikum salaam/peace, all
The Qur’an is/was the
Guidance for all people, Qur'an revealed confirming to what the people had/believed/followed before it i.e. the scriptures (
guidances) of the former prophets. So, those who followed the former scriptures would definitely believe and accept
the Qur’an as the truth and guidance.
And I'm curious to know that what's you people's understanding of
Guidance ?
2:38-41We said: "Drop/decline from it, all together,
then whenever guidance comes to you from Me, so who followed My guidance, so no fear/fright on them and nor they be sad/grieving."
And those who disbelieved and denied with Our verses/evidences, those are the fire's owners/company, they (are) in it eternally.
You Israel's sons and daughters, remember My blessing, which I blessed on you, and fulfill/complete with My promise/contract, I fulfill/complete with your promise/contract, and (only)Me so be terrified/monkish of Me.
And believe with what I descended, confirming to what (is) with you, and do not be (the) first disbeliever with it, and do not buy/volunteer with My verses/evidences a small/littleprice, and (only) Me, so fear and obey Me(taqwa).
Thus as
the guidance came, they believed
5:83-84
...
“Our Lord, we believe, so record us with the witnesses.”
“And why should we not believe in God and what has come to us of the truth?
You share:
“So as they believed in the Qur'an, they will have Swalat, Fasting, Hajj etc. right? i.e. they are no more Nazarenes/Christians.”
Not necessarily...
I disagree with you. Believing in the Book means
accepting it as the truth and guidance. Therefore, one who believes in it should follow it.[this is the same case in many of the Qur’an alone followers today; they don’t know what is FAITH actually].
For example, consider 5:6, how your Logic works here if one believes in
the Qur'an? because it's a command to
the believers of
the Qur'an/guidance !You, you those who believed, when/if you started/got up to the swalat, so wash with water your faces, and your hands to the elbows, and rub/wipe with your heads and your feet to the two joints/ankle bones…
Secondly .... the Quran says not to take awliya ONLY with those that are trouble makers and ridicule the religion..... you have taken one verse and missed out the clarifying verse 5:57.
As mentioned by brother Joseph in the link below .....
http://quransmessage.com/forum/index.php?topic=260
Regarding 5:51 & 57Based on my Qur’an studies,
Jews and Nazarenes/Christians were sects
among 'the people of the Book’
who followed their desires. See 2:120-121, 2:140, 9:30, 5:18 etc.
And among the people of the Book (other than the sects) there were wrong doers that’s what verse 5:57 talking about. [ like those in among today's Qur'an followers ('people of the Qur'an')]
I agree with brother Duster as it could get very hard to respond to questions that are not correlated with the message of the Quran...
If you have the truth with you, you can easily answer such questions..
And regarding verses like 2:62, 5:69 etc. 5:69That those who believed and those who guided/Jews, and the Sabians, and the Nazarenes/Christians,
who believed with God and the Day the Last, and worked correct/righteous deeds, so no fear on them, and nor they be sad/grieving.
If one believed in God, he would also believe in God's revelations! (See 2:285) Therefore, 5:69 could be for those who were in such sects (Jews, Christians sabians etc.) before the Qur’an’s revelation? Why not? [God's message of truth has
always been the same-ponder over 48:28].
and
one verse before 5:69 (5:58)
Say: "You The Book's people,
you are not on a thing, until you keep up the Torah and the Injeel, and what was descended to you from your Lord."
And what was descended to you(Muhammad) from your Lord increases many of them tyranny/arrogance, and disbelief, so do not grieve/sadden on the nation, the disbelieving.