have listened to and the other books in the world, it would not resemble any of them; it is not of the same sort as them nor of the same degree.’ The Qur’an, then, is of a degree either above all of them or below all of them. To be below them is impossible, and no enemy nor the Devil even could accept it. In which case, the Qur’an is above all other books and is therefore a miracle. In just the same way, we say according to the categorical proof called ‘investigation [of possible cases] and disjunction,’ taken from the sciences of method and logic: [^11]

[^11]:See, al-Juwaynī, al-Burhān, ii, 534, 535; al-Rāzī, al-Maḥṣūl, v, 299.

“O Satan and O disciples of Satan! The Qur’an is either the Word of God come from the supreme throne of God and His greatest name, or, God forbid, and again, God forbid, it is a human forgery fabricated on earth by someone without belief who neither feared God nor knew Him. In the face of the above proofs, O Satan, you can neither say that, nor could you have said it, nor will you be able to say it in the future. Therefore, the Qur’an is the Word of the universe’s Creator. For there is no point between the two; it is impossible and precluded that there should be. Just as we have proved in the most clear and decisive manner; and you have seen it and heard it.

“In the same way, Muhammad (Upon whom be blessings and peace) is either God’s Messenger and the highest of the prophets and the most superior of creatures, or, God forbid, he has to be imagined to be someone without belief who fell to the lowest of the low because he lied concerning God, and did not know God, and did not believe in His punishment. And as for this, O Devil, neither you nor the atheistic philosophers of Europe and hypocrites of Asia on whom you rely could say it, nor could you say it in the past, neither shall you be able to say it in the future, for there is no one in the world who would listen to it and accept it. It is because of this that the most corrupting of those philosophers and the most lacking in conscience of the hypocrites, even, admit that ‘Muhammad the Arabian (UWBP) was very clever, and was most moral and upright.’

“Since this matter is restricted to these two sides, and the second one is impossible and no one at all claims it to be true, and since we have proved with decisive arguments that there is no point between them, for sure and of necessity, in spite of you and your party, self-evidently and most certainly Muhammad the Arabian (Upon whom be blessings and peace) was God’s Messenger, and the highest of the prophets and the best of all creatures.”

Upon him be blessings and peace to the number of angels and jinn and men.