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wa-law ʾanna ʾahla l-kitābi ʾāmanū wa-ttaqaw la-kaffarnā ʿanhum sayyiʾātihim wa-la-ʾadkhalnāhum jannāti n-naʿīmi
Had the People of the Book believed and been Godwary, We would surely have absolved them of their misdeeds and admitted them into gardens of bliss.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Surah Al-Ma'idah, Verse 65
65. "And if the People of the Book had believed and kept from evil, We would certainly have remitted their sins and We would certainly have made them enter Gardens of Bless."
The Qur'an follows, here, the former criticisms upon the manner and style of the People of the Book. In this verse and the verse next to it as the training principles require, and in order to bring back the mischievous People of the Book to the straight path and admiring that minority of them who did not cooperate with them in their evil deeds, the Qur'an, at first, says:
They not only will be forgiven of their sins but also will be admitted into gardens of Paradise which are the centre of kinds of blessings. The Holy Qur'an says:
This meaning refers to the spiritual bounties found in the Hereafter.