The Criterion
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[25:31]
For so it is that against every prophet We have set up enemies from among those who are lost in sin: yet none can guide and give succour as thy Sustainer does!

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* v.31 : Cf. 6:112, which refers in very similar terms to the evil forces (shayātīn) against which every prophet has had to contend. The “glittering half-truths meant to delude the mind” spoken of in that verse are exemplified in the present passage, prophetically, by the deceptive argument that the Qur’ān, having been enunciated fourteen centuries ago, must now be considered “obsolete.”