4إِن نَشَأ نُنَزِّل عَلَيهِم مِنَ السَّماءِ آيَةً فَظَلَّت أَعناقُهُم لَها خاضِعينَMuhammad AsadHad We so willed, We could have sent down unto them a message from the skies, so that their necks would [be forced to] bown down before it in humility.1Inasmuch as the spiritual value of man's faith depends on its being an outcome of free choice and not of compulsion, the visible or audible appearance of a "message from the skies" would, by its very obviousness, nullify the element of free choice and, therefore, deprive man's faith in that message of all its moral significance.