harmful things from the road, and modesty is a branch of faith.”

Likewise, those who denied the Quran and the Messenger differed about him: some called him a sorcerer, others a madman, a poet, or a soothsayer. Similarly, they called the Quran magic, poetry, tales of the ancients that he had written down, or a falsehood he had fabricated. Thus they divided the Quran into disparate categories. Allah, Blessed and Exalted, said:

“Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion to His servant, that he might be a warner to all the worlds (1), He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, who has taken no offspring and has no partner in His dominion, and who created everything and ordained it in due measure (2). Yet they have taken besides Him gods that create nothing but are themselves created, and have no power to harm or benefit themselves