—and these people began their book by citing certain statements of the Messenger which, they claimed, prove that they are not obliged to follow him and that their present-day religion—despite the abrogation and alteration that have occurred—still deserves commendation. After that, they produced separate arguments to establish the soundness of their religion, and then they listed what they thought undermines him and his faith. For this reason we have opened our response with a response to their arguments drawn from the Qur’an, setting them out in the very order they adopted in their treatise.