36 Preface وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ رَبّي وَرَبُّكُم فَاعبُدوهُ ۚ هٰذا صِراطٌ مُستَقيمٌYusuf AliVerily God is my Lord and your Lord: Him therefore serve ye: this is a Way that is straight.1As opposed to the crooked superstitions which take refuge in all sorts of metaphysical sophistries to prove three in one and one in three. In the Qur-ān there is no crookedness (18:1). Christ’s teaching was simple, like his life, but the Christians have made it crooked.