186 Preface وَما أَنتَ إِلّا بَشَرٌ مِثلُنا وَإِن نَظُنُّكَ لَمِنَ الكاذِبينَYusuf Ali“Thou art no more than a mortal like us, and indeed we think thou art a liar!1They deny that he is a prophet or that they are doing wrong, or that any former generations behaved differently. They think they are the true exponents of human nature, and that such as he-idealists-are mere madmen.