the Quran itself and assured the community that it would never agree (1) upon misguidance, it would have suffered the same fate as the scriptures before it. The Exalted said, “Indeed, it is We who have sent down the Reminder, and surely We will guard it” (15:9).
(Twelfth) It is impossible that the earlier scriptures should lack any reference to this tremendous event—an event greater than anything the world has witnessed from its creation until the Day of Resurrection, and greater than anything it will ever witness. Knowledge of it has spread (2) to the furthest East and West, and has continued (3) through successive generations until Allah inherits the earth and all who are upon it. News of such magnitude must necessarily be unanimously reported by the messengers.
If the Antichrist—a lying man who will appear near the end of time and remain on earth for forty days—was unanimously foretold by the messengers, and every prophet from Noah to the Seal of the messengers (4) warned his nation about him, then how could the divine books, from first to last, unanimously remain silent (5) about this momentous matter, the like of which the world has never known and never will know?
No rational mind could accept such a claim, and it is rejected by the wisdom of the Wisest of judges. Rather, the truth is the opposite: Allah, glorified be He, never sent a prophet without first taking from him the covenant to believe in Muhammad and to affirm him, as He, Most High, said:
“And [recall] when Allah took the covenant of the prophets: ‘Whenever I give you a Book and wisdom, then…’"