and with the authentic transmitted reports. From those reports we shall, God willing, cite only what Allah—glorified and exalted—makes easy to present, for a full, exhaustive refutation of the Christians’ doctrines would far exceed the limits of this book.

When the Almighty related the story of the Messiah He said, “That is Jesus, the son of Mary—the statement of truth about which they dispute” (Maryam 34), meaning that they harbor doubts and engage in argument just as the Jews and the Christians have long disputed. He then said, “Yet the factions differed among themselves” (Maryam 37). Thus the Jews and the Christians first disagreed about him, and afterward the Christians themselves split into a great many camps: the Nestorians, the Jacobites, the Melkites, the Barubiyya, the Maryamiyya, the Sumiatiyya, and others like them. We shall, if Allah wills, mention many of these sects and the disagreements recorded from their synods, as was narrated by one of their prominent authorities, Saʿīd ibn al-Biṭrīq, and others.

Indeed, no nation on earth has ever been more divided concerning the Lord of the worlds than they. So woe to the unbelievers among all these factions when they behold the scene of that momentous Day.