“Peace be upon Elias.” ⦗al-Ṣāffāt 130⦘

The Exalted also says:

“We granted them a reputation of lofty truthfulness.” ⦗Maryam 50⦘

Verses of this sort are abundant in the Quran: it speaks of the Prophets and their followers, the honor conferred upon them, and the disgrace and torment that befell the unbelievers who opposed them—thus laying bare the beauty of the former’s state and the ugliness of the latter’s.

To clarify this further: whoever examines the condition of the adherents of the revealed religions—Muslims, Jews, and Christians—and compares it with that of others in beneficial sciences and righteous deeds will find that the people of the religions are incomparably more complete. And if he looks at what peoples outside the revealed religions possess of theoretical and practical wisdom—such as the wisdom of the Indians, the Greeks, the pre-Islamic Arabs, and the Persians—