"These are they to whom We gave the Book...

"These are they to whom We gave the Book, the authority and the prophet hood; so if these (infidels) disbelieve in it, We have (already) entrusted with it a people who are not disbelievers in it." In this verse, three magnificent privileges, which have been the base of all privileges of the prophets, are referred to. It says: "These are they to whom We gave the Book, the authority and the prophet hood....." The Arabic term /hukm/ originally means: 'prevention, and restrain'.