This is just as He, the Exalted, said: "Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered prophet, whom they find written described in what they have of the Torah and the Gospel. He enjoins upon them what is right and forbids them what is wrong and makes lawful for them the good things and prohibits for them the evil and relieves them of their burden and the shackles which were upon them. So they who have believed in him, honored him, supported him and followed the light which was sent down with him—it is those who will be the successful." ¹

If a questioner says: "Indeed, the early religious laws guided us toward Muhammad, His glory is magnificent," this is not admissible [because the adherents] ² of every preceding law deny the laws that come after them—just as the Jews did with Jesus, and the Christians did with Muhammad, His glory is magnificent. Thus, the adherents of every religious law and every dome (qubbah) that is posterior is bound to acknowledge what preceded it. Rather, it is from Muhammad, His glory is magnificent, that we deduced the preceding religious laws,