“…the east or the west; rather, true righteousness is for those who believe in God, the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets.”

He has likewise proclaimed the loftiness of what the prophets brought and the abrogation of the falsehood Satan casts into their recitations. The Exalted says:

“We sent no messenger nor any prophet before you but that, when he recited, Satan cast something into his recitation; yet God abolishes what Satan casts, then God makes His verses firm. God is All-Knowing, All-Wise, so that He may make what Satan casts a trial for those whose hearts are diseased and whose hearts are hardened; and indeed the wrongdoers are in profound schism.” (Q 22:52–53)

If one should object, saying, “In the reading of Ibn ʿAbbās the phrase appears as ‘or a muḥaddath (one given inspired speech),’ and on this wording al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī and others have based their argument,” we reply, first: even supposing that this were an authentic Qur’anic reading, it is not known