سورة آل عمران

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): یا أَهْلَ الْکِتابِ لِمَ تَلْبِسُونَ الْحَقَّ بِالْباطِلِ [O followers of the Book! Why do you confound the truth with the falsehood] — they are those who bore enmity toward Amir al-Mu'minin (peace be upon him) and are concealing the truth which the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) had commanded them regarding Ali (peace be upon him).

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): Allah explained the story of those who altered the heavenly Books with His saying: يُرِیدُونَ لِیُطْفِؤُا نُورَ اللَّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَ یَأْبَی اللَّهُ إِلَّا أَنْ یُتِمَّ نُورَهُ [They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah refuses except to complete His light]. (Tawbah/32) The meaning is that they wrote in the heavenly Books things that Allah had not said, in order to confuse the matter for creation; so Allah blinded their hearts, until they left in the Book of Allah things that point to what they introduced into it and what they distorted from it, and Allah exposed their lie, their confounding of matters, and their concealment of what they knew from the Book, and for this reason He said to them: لِمَ تَلْبِسُونَ الْحَقَّ بِالْبَاطِلِ [Why do you confound the truth with falsehood?].

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): وَ تَکْتُمُونَ الْحَقَّ وَ أَنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ [And you hide the truth while you know] — meaning, even though you know that the attributes of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) are mentioned in the Torah, you conceal it.