all the specious objections raised against it: “So what is there after truth except error? How then are you turned away?” (Yunus 10:32).

This principle recurs throughout the Qur’an, making it a powerful means of calling people to the truth and rebutting every falsehood that contradicts it.

It debates them by insisting that matters be set in their proper places, pointing out that it is utterly unfitting to grant any share of the rights of the Creator—rich, self-sufficient, and perfect in every respect—to a created servant who is poor and powerless in every way.

It challenges them to produce a book or a law more rightly guided and more excellent than this Book and this law, and to confront the Qur’an by bringing something like it, if they are truthful.

It commands His Prophet to enter into mubahala (mutual imprecation) with those whose stubbornness and defiance have become evident; yet they shrink from it, knowing that he is the truthful Messenger of Allah who does not speak from desire, and that were they to proceed with the imprecation they would perish.

In sum, there is no beneficial path for establishing truth and demolishing falsehood that the Qur’an has not laid out in the most perfect manner.