criticisms the like of which is not the place to enumerate here. By contrast, when it comes to the Law of Muhammad—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—not one of them has found any fault with it, save those who have stepped outside the very philosophical code that, in their own reckoning, obliges them to speak with knowledge and with justice. As for those among them who do adhere to knowledgeable and fair discourse, they are unanimous that the Law of Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, is the finest code ever to reach the world. How, then, could anyone find such a Law surprising?!

Seventh answer:

This may be directed in particular to the People of the Scripture.

To the Jews it is said:
You are the most abased of nations. If, for the sake of argument, what you now follow were the unchanged religion of Allah, it would still be a religion that is vanquished and subdued across the earth. Do you then marvel that Allah should send a Messenger to guide to the truth and to a straight path—sending him with guidance and the religion of truth so that He may make it prevail over every other religion, until the religion of Allah with which He sent His messengers and revealed His books stands victorious and manifest, by proof and eloquent argument as well as by sword and spear?

And to the Christians it is said:
You have not kept Allah’s religion—delivered through His messengers—pure from the creed of the polytheists and the negators. Rather, you adopted principles from the polytheists and the negators—among the philosophers and others—and inserted them into your faith. You enjoy over most unbelievers neither a reasoned proof nor a decisive upper hand. Rather, the unbelievers have