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Say: 'O People of the Scripture, why do you bar believers, causing them to turn away, from Allah’s way, His religion, by denying the truth of the Prophet and concealing His graces, desiring to make it crooked ('iwajan is the verbal noun, meaning mu'awwajatan, 'made crooked'), inclining away from the truth, while you yourselves are witnesses, [while] you know that the religion which is upright and pleasing [to Allahu ta’ālā] is that of Islam, as stated in your Book? Allahu ta’ālā is not heedless of what you do', in the way of unbelief and mendacity; instead He gives you respite until your appointed time and then requites you.