“…that He may disgrace them and grant you victory over them … and heal the breasts of a believing people.”

I asked, “What, then, is it when it appears in Diʿbil’s poem?”

He replied, “It is Diʿbil’s own utterance.”

I said, “Created or uncreated?”

He answered, “Uncreated, rather.”

I remarked, “So you see: by mere intention it has become a human act, and by the same intention a created thing. What, then, do you find objectionable in our position?”

This is the furthest limit of the dispute regarding the wording of the Qur’an. It suffices as an admonition for anyone who yields to the truth and receives it with a sound heart. As for the one who grows arrogant and is carried away by tribal zeal, Allah has no need of him. Allah is Self-Sufficient, Praiseworthy.