3:64

Invitation to Unite Around a Common

Principle.

Verse/Note:

3:64- Say, "O people of the book, let us come to a common statement between us and you; that we do not serve except God, and do not set up anything at all with Him, and that none of us takes each other as lords beside God." If they turn away, then say, "Bear witness that we have peacefully surrendered."

Note:

Anyone who accepts the principles mentioned in this verse is a Muslim, that is, submitter to God alone. Clergymen and religious leaders have transformed the same divine message into separate and competing religions and sects. A paradigm shift similar to the "Copernican Revolution" is needed in the realm of religion. Instead of Buddha, Jesus, Muhammed centered religions, we should unify in a God-centered system. See 4:171; 9:31. The Quran mentions major distortion in Christianity, such as claiming the exclusive right to enter Paradise (2:111, 120, 135), engaging in deceptive evangelical propaganda tactics (3:72), committing thievery and embezzlement (3:75), claiming to be the chosen ones (5:18), not following the laws of their own book (5:47), taking their scholars and priests to be lords besides God (9:31), and hoarding wealth instead of spending in the cause of God, such as for helping the poor(edip).