We have already sent Our messengers with clear evidences and sent down with them the Scripture and the balance that the people may maintain [thier affairs] in justice. And We sent down iron, wherein is great military might and benifits for the people, and so that Allah may make evident those who support Him and His messengers unseen. Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted in Might. And We have already sent Noah and Abraham and placed in their descendants prophethood and scripture; and among them is he who is guided, but many of them are defiantly disobedient. Then We sent following their footsteps [i.e., traditions] Our messengers and followed [them] with Jesus, the son of Mary, and gave him the Gospel. And We placed in the hearts of those who followed him compassion and mercy and monasticism, which they innovated; We did not prescribe it for them except [that they did so] seeking the aproval of Allah. But they did not observe it with due observance. So We gave the ones who believed among them thier reward, but many of them are defiantly disobedient.
THE QUR'AN al-Hadeed 57:25-27
