Surah Al-i-‘Imrân 3:183

الَّذِينَ قَالُوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَهِدَ إِلَيْنَا أَلَّا نُؤْمِنَ لِرَسُولٍ حَتَّىٰ يَأْتِيَنَا بِقُرْبَانٍ تَأْكُلُهُ النَّارُ ۗ

3:183 In the religious ceremonies before Moses and also later in the Mosaic Law, the priests burnt the offerings on the altar. This was called “burnt sacrifice” or “sacrifice consumed by the fire”: a reference is made to this in Lev. 1:9. While blessing Israel, Moses says, “They shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar” (Deut. 33:15). When the Jews were told that they were opposing Islam through covetousness (cf. 3:181), their response was that they opposed the Muslims because the Muslims, unlike them, devoured those animals, which they offered as burnt sacrifices, so they could not accept a Prophet who did not observe Jewish Law. They persisted in their requirement that the promised Prophet should observe the Jewish Law, although this aspect of the Law had been left in abeyance ever since the destruction of the second temple in Jerusalem. Jews also insisted that the promised Prophet should bring to them an offering which the priest should burn on the altar and that he should be an Israelite and should revive the Israelite law. The Holy Qur’ân answers this objection by saying that the “burnt offering” is no criterion to test the truth of a Prophet, as such an act could easily be accomplished by an impostor. A clear Book full of wisdom and glorious Scripture establish the truth of a claimant. Moreover, their Mosaic Law did not instruct them to reject the promised Prophet if he did not conform to the Law of the Torah in every detail. Yet even if observance of the “burnt offering” according to Mosaic Law was the criterion of the promised Prophet, the question then arises about their rejection of Prophet Jesus who conformed to that law (cf. .Matt. 23.37; Thess. 2:15).