As for the previous books, they are temporary, limited to a period that ends with the revelation of what abrogates them and clarifies the distortion and alteration that occurred in them; and for this reason, they were not protected from it.

The Shaykh : What are we discussing? Faith in the books. We mentioned that the previous books are temporary for a specific time. What is that time? The time of the continuation of the message for the prophet to whom the book was revealed, based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): . "It ends with the revelation of what abrogates them and clarifies the distortion and alteration that occurred in them. And for this reason, they were not protected from it—meaning from distortion and alteration—indeed, distortion, addition, and omission occurred in them" in the previous books, because their original purpose was not for permanence, but rather they are temporary. We mentioned the evidence for this: The Jews. The Jews are the boldest of people against Allah and His messengers. They describe Allah with deficiency and flaw, they kill the prophets without right, and they distort the words from their contexts. When they were told to say "Hatta" (a lightening of the burden), they said "Hunatta" (wheat). So they are the boldest of people against Allah, His messengers, and His books. May Allah fight them; how are they turned away?
"And He the Exalted said:

So woe to those who write the "scripture" with their own hands, then say, "This is from Allah,"

فويل للذين يكتبون الكتاب بأيديهم ثم يقولون هذا من عند الله

[Al-Baqarah 2:79]

" And they are liars, but they buy with it a small price. What is the small price? That they retain prestige with the kings. They write for the kings what they want, then say: This is from Allah. So the king acts upon it, or the common people act upon it, so that their prestige and leadership remain.
Is there anyone in this Ummah who does this work? Yes, in this Ummah there are those who distort the texts of the Book and the Sunnah to please the leaders and sultans. These are called the scholars of the state, because scholars, in our view, are of three categories: The scholar of the state, who looks at what the state desires and twists the necks of the texts to what it wants. The second is the scholar of the Ummah, who looks at what benefits the people and pleases them, so he distorts the texts to match the desires of the people, and this is common. The third is the scholar of the religion, who speaks for the religion and defends it. This last one is the divine scholar. Good.
These are of which of the three categories?
The student : The state.

The Shaykh : And the Ummah as well. The state and the Ummah; they look at what benefits the people and distort the words from their contexts for its sake.
Allah the Exalted threatens them for the act and for the results of the act. For the act, in His saying: , and for its results: , because what their hands have written will have bad consequences; people will turn away from the religion and take what these people have written. The point of this is His saying: , and this indicates that what happened has happened in the previous books.
And He the Exalted said: This also contains the concealment by their scholars of what was revealed in the Torah, which indicates that the Torah is not what? It is not preserved.
And He the Exalted said: We are discussing this verse in terms of wording, then meaning. Here it is good to pause, then begin by saying: , because His saying: is a response to His saying: .
Pause also. Begin.
As for the meaning of the verse: . Twisting is of two types: conceptual twisting, which is conceptual distortion; and verbal twisting, which is verbal distortion.
Some scholars included in verbal twisting the recitation of non-Qur'anic texts with the recitation style of the Qur'anic texts, meaning: for example, you read a hadith as if you are reading the Qur'an, because if you read the hadith with the tone of Qur'anic recitation, it misleads the listener into thinking it is the Qur'an, and it falls under His saying: .
He said: , meaning that He revealed this, but Allah did not reveal it, and they know that they are liars.
"And He the Exalted said:

It is not for a human [prophet] that Allah should give him the Scripture and authority and prophethood and then he would say to the people, "Be servants to me rather than Allah,"

ما كان لبشر أن يؤتيه الله الكتاب والحكم و النبوة ثم يقول للناس كونوا عبادا لي من دون الله

[Ali 'Imran 3:79]

". This is impossible. And this verse is a response to whom? The Christians, the Christians who said that 'Isa is the son of Allah, or that Allah is the third of three, and they claimed that the Messiah brought it to them. So Allah the Exalted said: , and when it comes in the Qur'an as , it is a negation either of its non-existence in the Shari'ah, or of its non-existence in reality, or of its non-existence in both the Shari'ah and reality.