Trading God’s Covenant For a Cheap Price (3:187)
Quran Talk Blog · Article · May 4, 2015
3:187 GOD took a covenant from those who received the scripture: “You shall proclaim it to the people, and never conceal it.” But they disregarded it behind their backs, and traded it away for a cheap price. What a miserable trade.
What does 3:187 mean when it says “what a miserable trade”?
People who sell out the hereafter for this life when this life is an illusion. They are willing to disregard their morality for a material gain.
Righteous Jews and Christians
3:199 Surely, some followers of the previous scriptures do believe in GOD, and in what was revealed to you, and in what was revealed to them. They reverence GOD, and they never trade away GOD’s revelations for a cheap price. These will receive their recompense from their Lord. GOD is the most efficient in reckoning.