But if they deny you so were denied messengers before you who came bearing clear proofs miracles and the Scriptures such as the scrolls of Abraham and the Illuminating the lucid Book that is the Torah and the Gospel a variant reading establishes the prefixed preposition bā’ in both words sc. bi’l-zubur wa-bi’l-kitāb l-munīr ‘with the Scriptures and with the Illuminating Book’ so be patient as they were.