peace Duster,
If the message has not reached someone properly....
We are talking about
'the people of the book'and what the Qur'an says about them?
3:19
That truly the dheen at God, (is) the islam/submission/surrender,
and those who were given The Book did not differ/disagree/dispute, except from after what (that) the knowledge came to them, out of jealousy/oppression between them, and who disbelieves with God's signs/verses, so that God (is) swift in reckoning.
5:77
Say: "You
The Book's people, do not exaggerate/exceed the limit
in your dheen,
other than the truth,
and do not follow a nation's self attractions for desires, they had misguided from before and they misguided many, and they misguided from the way's/path's middle/straightness."
[Important :
This is a saying of the prophet to the people in the 7th century]
RED What are the other dheens?
No doubt, Just human desires !
BLUE About which dheen the prophet is talking? It’s clear from the verses 3:19, 42:13 etc.
and from 48:28 it's clear that the prophet came with
truth's dheen and
the Guidance (the Qur'an)
48:28
He is who
sent His messenger with the guidance and the truths' dheen to make it apparent/visible/overcome on/over the dheen all of it, and enough/sufficient with God (as) a witness.
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?Who said this? Were they not ‘the people of the book’?
Now think, is the term 'people of the book' applicable to today's Jews/Christians?(who do not follow the Qur'an)
[and do you think that all people today who say 'we follow the Qur'an' are in true dheen?]