Translation of the verse 102 from Surah Al-Ma’idah : Number of verses 120 - - page 124 - Part 7.
Before you, a community asked such questions, then on that account they became disbelievers.
A people asked such [questions] before you; then they became thereby disbelievers.
(5:102) Indeed some people before you had asked such questions and in consequence fell into unbelief. *117
*117). Some people first indulged in hair-splitting arguments about their laws and dogma, and thereby wove a great web of credal elaborations and legal minutiae. Then they became enmeshed in this same web and thus became guilty of dogmatic errors and the violation of their own religious laws. The people referred to here are the Jews, and the Muslims who followed in their footsteps and left no stone unturned, despite the warnings contained in the Qur'an and in the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him).