—over the profligates among his progeny. The idol-worshippers never acknowledged a single human prophet, yet were content with gods (1) fashioned from stone. The Jahmites, claiming to exalt Allah above His Throne so that no place might contain Him, then consigned Him to wells, impurities, indeed to every place. Likewise, the various sects of falsehood would not accept the clear texts of revelation, so they were afflicted with the rubbish of bewildered minds, the legacy of the Sabian deviants, and the hatchlings of atheistic philosophers. “Whomever Allah guides, he alone is rightly guided; but whomever He lets go astray—you will never find for him a protecting guide” (al-Kahf 18:17).