(exalted is He):

“Nothing is said to you except what was said to the messengers before you.” [Fussilat 43]

Allah Most High says:

“Thus We have appointed for every prophet enemies—devils from among mankind and jinn—inspiring one another with alluring words to deceive.” [al-An‘ām 112]

Allah Most High says:

“Those who associate partners with Allah will say, ‘Had Allah willed, neither we nor our forefathers would have associated partners with Him, nor would we have declared anything unlawful.’ Likewise, those before them denied the truth until they tasted Our punishment.” [al-An‘ām 148]

The Quran mentions this in several places, describing how the misguidance of later generations resembles that of earlier ones. This is because the children of Adam belong to a single species, sharing the same defining characteristics and human nature. Their faculties of perception and their movements are of the same kind. In this respect, they resemble one another in faith and unbelief, guidance and misguidance, knowledge and ignorance, ability and inability, and all the other opposing states they experience.

There is no doubt that many believers who are neither heretics nor hypocrites have become confused by much of what the Jahmiyyah say, supposing it to be true and a means of exalting Allah and declaring Him free of imperfection. Most of these people are bewildered, for they cannot but see that the Jahmiyyah’s claims conflict with the innate human disposition and with what the messengers brought. They therefore see these claims as contradicting what is known of necessity through reason and revelation. At times, therefore, they turn away from examining the matter altogether,