199 Preface فَقَرَأَهُ عَلَيهِم ما كانوا بِهِ مُؤمِنينَYusuf AliAnd had he recited it to them, they would not have believed in it.1The turn of Arabia having come for receiving God’s Revelation, as was foretold in previous Revelations, it was inevitable that it should be in the Arab tongue through the mouth of an Arab. Otherwise it would have been unintelligible, and the Arabs could not have received the Faith and become the vehicles for its promulgation as actually happened in history.