that no divinely revealed law may ever contradict it, and no prophet may ever report anything at variance with it whatsoever. Yet the Trinitarians—the worshippers of the cross—have abandoned all of this, clinging instead to what is ambiguous in meaning, equivocal in wording, and to the statements of those who went astray before them, thereby leading many others astray and wandering far from the straight path.

The very foundations of the Trinitarians and their doctrine concerning the Lord of the worlds stand in the sharpest opposition to all of the foregoing and diverge from it in the utmost degree.

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On the fact that, had Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ﷺ not appeared, the prophethood of all the other prophets would have been nullified.

The manifestation of his prophethood is itself a confirmation of their prophethoods and a testimony to their truthfulness (1); his being sent is one of the signs foretold by the prophets before him. Allah, exalted is He, has pointed to this very meaning in His words: “Rather, he has come with the truth and has confirmed the messengers” (Q 37:37). The messengers had given glad tidings of him and foretold his advent, so his very coming is the fulfillment of their truthful report (2). His appearance, then, verified them, for it constituted the realization of what they had announced.

There is no contradiction between this and the other statement that his confirming the messengers consists in his bearing witness to their veracity (3) and believing in them, for he affirmed them by both his words and his advent: by coming he testified to their truthfulness, and by speaking he attested to their integrity (4).

A comparable instance is Christ’s saying: “confirming what is before me of the Torah and bringing glad tidings of a messenger who will come from—"