Friday. Likewise, He forbade the people of the Torah every animal with claws and the fat surrounding the entrails and kidneys, while permitting the people of the Quran all wholesome things and forbidding them only impure things. Allah Most High relieved those among the People of the Book who followed him of their burdens and the shackles that had bound them:

“So those who believe in him, honour him, support him, and follow the light sent down with him—it is they who will succeed.” (157) [al-A‘rāf 157]

Likewise, rational proofs concerning reported matters, and rational proofs of the goodness of some things and the evil of others—according to those who affirm this—do not, if true, contradict anything brought by the messengers, whether Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, or any other messenger. The messengers cannot report anything that sound reason knows to be impossible. Rather, they may not report anything whose truth is not known through reason. They therefore report matters that perplex reason, not matters that reason deems impossible. Some of what they report may also be beyond the capacity of some people’s minds