7 Preface وَلَو نَزَّلنا عَلَيكَ كِتابًا في قِرطاسٍ فَلَمَسوهُ بِأَيديهِم لَقالَ الَّذينَ كَفَروا إِن هٰذا إِلّا سِحرٌ مُبينٌYusuf AliIf We had sent unto thee a written (message) on parchment,839-A### so that they could touch it with their hands, the Unbelievers would have been sure to say: “This is nothing but obvious magic!”1The materialists want to see actual physical material things before them, but if such a thing came from an unusual source or expressed things they cannot understand, they give it some name like magic, or superstition, or whatever name is in fashion, and they are not helped at all in attaining faith, because their “hearts are diseased” (2:10).