Over time, rabbis and scholars developed extensive oral teachings, debates, and interpretations. These were later written down as:
• Mishnah (200 CE): A compilation of Jewish oral laws.
• Gemara (200–500 CE): Rabbinic commentary explaining the Mishnah.
Together, they form the Talmud, which eventually became the central authority in Judaism—often surpassing the Torah itself.
Just as Hadith and Sunna replaced Quranic authority in later Islamic history, the Mishnah and Gemara took precedence over the Torah. Both systems share the same pattern:
• Divine scripture → human tradition → religious authority → distortion of the original message.
This shift resulted in new doctrines and legal systems not found in the revealed scripture.
The Hebrew Bible records repeated cycles where the Children of Israel were punished for abandoning God’s law. Books such as Judges, Kings, Jeremiah, and Chronicles show that whenever Israel replaced God’s commandments with human inventions, they faced corruption, defeat, and exile. The message is consistent: God’s blessings followed obedience, and suffering followed deviation.
The Quran confirms the Torah as a true scripture but warns against adding human teachings to divine revelation. It states: “They write the scripture with their own hands and say, ‘This is from God,’ to gain a meager profit.” (2:79)
This describes the elevation of human interpretation above divine law, paralleling the rise of Talmudic authority.
The concern is not the historical or cultural value of the Talmud, but its elevation to the status of religious law. When rabbinic rulings override the Torah, it transforms scholars into lawgivers and tradition into doctrine—contradicting the Quranic principle that God alone is the source of religious authority.
A ‘false god’ in the Quranic sense is anything obeyed instead of God’s revelation. When the Talmud becomes the primary legal authority, it functions as a false god—not through intent, but through effect. This mirrors similar developments in Christianity (Nicene Creed) and Islam (Hadith and Sunna).
The Talmud is a monumental scholarly work, but not divine revelation. Its authority within Judaism marks a shift from God’s scripture (the Torah) to human tradition. The Quran calls all communities—Jewish, Christian, and Muslim—back to the faith of Abraham: worshiping God alone, upholding original revelation, and avoiding human additions that distort divine guidance.
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