After all...

After all, the followers of Judaism and Christianity were intensely hostile to the new religion of Islam, and the fact that the Quran praises the figures sacred to those two religions proves how far removed the Quran is from all petty rivalry and how alien to it are all kinds of power seeking.

The Quran proclaims: “We have sent this book down to you in truth, confirming, verifying and protecting the previous heavenly books.” (4) Since religion is rooted in the essential disposition of the human being, as one of his fundamental impulses that…