Al-Ahqaf (The Dunes)

10. Say: “Tell me! If this [Qur’an] is from Allah and you deny it, and a witness to it from among the Children of Israel testifies that this Qur’an is like it and he believed while you are too proud [to believe].” Verily, Allah guides not the people who are wrong doers.

Wrong doing impedes insight and results in deprivation from Divine Grace.

In the blessed Verse in question, God says:

“O Muhammad (S)! Ask them to inform you of their sayings. If this Qur’an is Revealed by God and a witness from the Children of Israel bears witness to its veracity but you waxed proud and disbelieved in it, what will be in store for you? Are you not from among wrong doers? God shall not guide wrong doers.”

It is reported that by

“witness” (shahid) ‘Abd Allah ibn Salam is being meant. He was one of the ascetics and scholars of the Children of Israel. By “like it” (mithlihi) the verses and meanings of the Torah are being intended that testify to the Qur’an as Divine Revelation and is consistent with it in terms of Divine Teachings and Promises and Threats.

In short, the Verse signifies that the Noble Prophet (S) is Divinely appointed by God to provide the Jews with guidance saying that as per the testimony of their own scholars it is substantiated that the Qur’an is Divine Revelation but they deny it out of their vanity. Are they not wrong doers? Sunk in wrong doing, they are not guidable.