Section Six:
The Messiah, peace be upon him, came after Moses, peace be upon him, with a dispensation that attained the very summit of perfection. Once the goal has been reached, no further law is needed to go beyond it; anything introduced thereafter is a legislation that must be rejected.

[The author’s method in refuting their false claims]

We—unto Allah belong all praise and favor—demonstrate that every proof they advance, whether scriptural or rational, affords them no support whatsoever. This holds whether the evidence is drawn from the Qur’an, from the pre-Qur’anic scriptures, or from reason. In reality, all the scriptures together—along with the Qur’an and sound intellect—stand as evidence against them, not for them. Most of what they cite from prophetic texts or from reason itself is, in fact, a proof against them; it clearly reveals the unsoundness of their doctrine, in addition to the other prophetic texts and the scales that serve as rational standards which likewise invalidate it.

In the same way, whenever the people of innovation appeal to the books of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, one finds within those very passages what makes plain that they have no legitimate argument in them; rather