Sura-3 [Al-Imran, Medina 89 ]
The Quranic Text & Ali’s version:
3:95. Say:
"Allah speaketh the truth:
... فَاتَّبِعُواْ مِلَّةَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ حَنِيفًا ...
follow the religion of Abraham, the sane in faith;
... وَمَا كَانَ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ ﴿٩٥﴾
he was not of the pagans."
Transliteration Qul sadaqalla_h(u), fattabi'u_ millata ibra_hima hanifa_(n), wa ma_ ka_na minal musyrikin(a).
Other Versions:
3: 95
Asad Say: “God has spoken the truth: follow, then, the creed of Abraham, who turned away from all that is false, …………
Pickthall Say: Allah speaketh truth. So follow the religion of Abraham, the upright. He was not of the idolaters.
[ Ali’s note - 421 The greater freedom of Islam in the matter of the ceremonial law, compared with the Mosaic Law, is not a reproach but a recommendation. We go back to an older source than Judaism,-the institutions of Abraham. By common consent his Faith was sound, and he was certainly not a Pagan, a term contemptuously applied to the Arabs by the Jews. (3.95) ]