Nay, do ye say that Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes were Jews or Christians? SAY _unto them_, Are ye the more knowing, or is God?[79] And who is more unrighteous than they who conceal a testimony that they have from God?[80] But God is not heedless of that which ye do. (ii. 133, 134.) XXV. _Remember_, when Jesus the son of Mary said, ‘O children of Israel, Verily I am the Messenger of God unto you, confirming the Law which [was] before me, and giving good tidings of a Messenger who shall come after me, whose name [shall be] Aḥmad.’[81] But when he (_Aḥmad_) came unto them with evident proofs, they said, ‘This is manifest magic!’ And who is more unrighteous than he who forgeth falsehood against God, when he is invited unto El-Islám? And God directeth not the unrighteous people. They desire to put out the light of God with their mouths: but God will perfect His light, though the unbelievers be loth _thereto_. It is He who hath sent His messenger with the direction and the religion of truth, that He may exalt above every religion, though the polytheists be loth _thereto_. (lxi. 6-9.) XXVI. Those to whom We have given the Scripture know him (_Moḥammad_) as they know their children.[82] But a party of them do conceal the truth[83] while they know. (ii. 141.) XXVII. _The Jews said unto Moḥammad_, ‘Verily God hath enjoined us[84] that we should not believe an apostle until he bring us a sacrifice which fire shall devour.’ SAY, Apostles have come unto you before me with manifest proofs,[85] and with that ye have mentioned:[86] then wherefore did ye slay them, if ye be speakers of truth? (iii. 179, 180.) XXVIII. _The unbelievers of Mekkeh_ have sworn by God, with the mightiest of their oaths, that if a sign come unto them they will assuredly believe therein. SAY, Signs are only with God. And what will make you to know?[87] Verily if they come they will not believe. And We will turn away their hearts and their eyes,[88] as they believed not therein the first time; and We will leave them in their transgression, wandering about in perplexity. And though We had sent down unto them the angels, and the dead had spoken unto them, and We had gathered together about them everything in tribes, they had not believed unless God had pleased; but the greater number of them know not. (vi. 109-111.) XXIX. And they have said, ‘O thou unto whom the Admonition[89] hath been sent down, thou art certainly possessed by a Jinnee.[90] Why dost thou not come unto us with the angels, if thou be of those that speak truth?’ We send not down the angels save with justice,[91] nor would they then be respited. Verily, We have sent down the Admonition, and We will surely preserve it. And We have sent _Messengers_ before thee among the sects of the former generations; And there came not unto them any Messenger but they had him in derision: