سورة آل عمران

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): وَ لِأُحِلَّ لَکُم بَعضَ الَّذِی حُرِّمَ علَیْکُمْ [And that I may make lawful for you some of what was forbidden to you] — the meaning is the Sabbath day, and the fat of animals and the bird which Allah had forbidden to the Children of Israel.

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Between Dawud (peace be upon him) and Isa ibn Maryam (peace be upon him) there is a gap of four hundred years. The religion of Isa (peace be upon him) was this: he was sent with tawhid (monotheism) and ikhlas (sincerity) and with those things which Nuh, Ibrahim and Musa (peace be upon them) had enjoined. The Injil was revealed to him, and a covenant was taken from him — the very covenant that had been taken from the prophets (peace be upon them). In this book, the establishment of prayer together with the religion, enjoining good and forbidding evil, holding the forbidden as forbidden and the lawful as lawful, was set forth for him. In the Injil, admonitions, parables and limits were sent down upon him, and there was no retaliation (qisas), nor rulings of hudud (prescribed penalties), nor obligatory shares of inheritance in these rulings. Likewise, things were sent down to him which, in comparison to what had been revealed to Musa (peace be upon him) in the Tawrat, were an easing granted to him — and this is the saying of Allah the Exalted concerning what Isa ibn Maryam (peace be upon him) said to the Children of Isra'il: وَ لِأُحِلَّ لَکُمْ بَعْضَ الَّذِی حُرِّمَ عَلَیْکُمْ [And that I may make lawful for you part of that which was made forbidden to you]. And Isa (peace be upon him) commanded those of his followers who were with him to believe in the shariah of the Tawrat and the Injil.