people of the scripture

[Ayanle]

:salam2:
does this include all the other prophets who had revelation that we don't know about and not just the jews and christians?

 

[ahmed_indian]

Sheikh Salman al-Oadah said:

The People of the Scripture being referred to are the Jews and the Christians.

This understanding is illustrated by the following verses: “And this is the blessed Book which We have sent down, so follow it and fear Allah that perhaps you may receive mercy. Lest you (pagan Arabs) should say: ‘The Book was sent down only to two groups who came before us, and for our part, we were unaware of what they studied’.” [Sûrah al-An`âm: 155-156] The two groups that these verses refer to are the Jews and the Christians.

What must be taken into consideration is the general meaning of the People of the Scripture, what they believe about themselves, and what they profess to believe about their prophets. Nevertheless, whoever among them disbelieves in his religion or renounces it and becomes a Marxist or Communist who denies the existence of God, then he should be considered in the same light as any other idolater or atheist.

source:http://en.islamtoday.net/node/1528