“And they say, ‘Shall we then abandon our gods for a crazed poet?’”

 

© 2024 Chuck Egerton

"And likewise, He saith: “As for those who believe not in the verses of God, or that they shall ever meet Him, these of My mercy shall despair, and these doth a grievous chastisement await.”¹⁶² Also, “And they say, ‘Shall we then abandon our gods for a crazed poet?’”¹⁶³ The implication of this verse is manifest. Behold what they observed after the verses were revealed. They called Him a poet, scoffed at the verses of God, and exclaimed saying: “These words of his are but tales of the Ancients!” By this they meant that those words which were spoken by the peoples of old Muḥammad hath compiled and called them the Word of God."

Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán

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