137 Preface إِن هٰذا إِلّا خُلُقُ الأَوَّلينَYusuf Ali“This is no other than a customary device of the ancients,1They said, as many of our modern enemies of religion say, “you are only reviving an ancient superstition, a dope of the crowd; there is no such thing as a Hereafter, or the sort of punishments you announce!”