It is well known that people become hostile to the bearer of such a call and envy him, “as Waraqah ibn Nawfal said to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, after he told him what had come to him:

‘Your people will drive you out.’

He asked, ‘Will they really drive me out?’

Waraqah replied, ‘Yes. No one has ever brought anything like what you have brought without being met with hostility. If I live to see that day, I will support you with all my strength.’”

It is also well known that, if the understood meaning of such a person’s words and the apparent sense of his address were lies against Allah, and if his description of Him amounted to likening Him to created beings and attributing a body to Him in a manner contrary to clear reason—indeed, making the speaker an unbeliever, a liar, and a fabricator of lies against Allah—then his enemies would have the strongest motives and incentives to use this against him, attack what he said, and thereby impugn his prophethood.

The same applies to Moses son of ʿImrān and the Children of Israel. According to the consistent course of human affairs, objections of this kind and attacks upon what Moses brought would necessarily have appeared in every age, and they would have harmed the one granted permission on that account, and done still worse to him.

If it is said: Attacks of this kind have indeed been made against Moses and Muhammad, may Allah bless them both and grant them peace.