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Say: 'O People of the Scripture, Jews and Christians, do not go to extremes, do [not] overstep the bounds, in your religion, other than those, extremes, of truth, neither lowering nor elevating Jesus above his proper place, and do not follow the whims of a people who went astray formerly, on account of their extremism - these were their forefathers - and have led many, [other] people, astray, and strayed from the even way', from the path of truth (al-sawā' originally means 'middle').