in form and appearance except through My action. Besides creating you and what you carve, I am also the Creator of your carving, for it is I who give you the ability to do it and enable you to carry it out.

Then Allah, Mighty and Majestic, refuted those who denied His messengers, saying:

“They did not give Allah His due when they said, ‘Allah has revealed nothing to any human being.’ Say, ‘Who revealed the Book that Moses brought as a light and guidance for people?’”

[Al-An‘ām: 191]

He also said:

“Messengers bearing good news and giving warnings, so that people would have no argument against Allah after the messengers.”

[Al-Nisā’: 165]

Then the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, argued against the People of the Scriptures by citing the descriptions of him in their books and the indications of his name and attributes. When the Christians concealed and denied what their books contained concerning this, he challenged them to a mutual invocation of Allah’s curse, following the command Allah, Mighty and Majestic, gave him in His words:

“If anyone disputes with you about him after you have received