Tafheem ul Quran
Surah 5 Al-Ma'idah, Ayat 66-66
وَلَوۡ اَنَّهُمۡ اَقَامُوا التَّوۡرٰٮةَ وَالۡاِنۡجِيۡلَ وَمَاۤ اُنۡزِلَ اِلَيۡهِمۡ مِّنۡ رَّبِّهِمۡ لَاَ كَلُوۡا مِنۡ فَوۡقِهِمۡ وَمِنۡ تَحۡتِ اَرۡجُلِهِمۡؕ مِنۡهُمۡ اُمَّةٌ مُّقۡتَصِدَةٌ ؕ وَكَثِيۡرٌ مِّنۡهُمۡ سَآءَ مَا يَعۡمَلُوۡنَ
﴿5:66﴾
(5:66) Had the People of the Book observed the Torah and the Gospel, and
all that had been revealed to them from their Lord, sustenance would have been
showered over them from above and risen from beneath their feet.96
Some among them certainly keep to the right path; but many of them do things
which are evil.
Notes
96 In the Old Testament, Leviticus (chapter 26) and Deuteronomy (chapter
28) record a sermon of Moses in which he impresses upon Israel, in great detail,
the bounties and blessings of God with which they would be endowed if they obeyed
His commandments, and the afflictions, scourges and devastations that would
descend upon them if they disobeyed Him and rejected the Book of God. That sermon
of Moses is the best explanation of this verse of the Qur'an.