78 Preface إِنَّ رَبَّكَ يَقضي بَينَهُم بِحُكمِهِ ۚ وَهُوَ العَزيزُ العَليمُYusuf AliVerily thy Lord will decide between them by His Decree:1 and He is Exalted in Might, All-Knowing.'Decree': hukm: the disputes between rival sects can only be settled by the Decree of God-(l) in the form of a Revelation, as was done by the Qur-ān, or (2) by the logic of events, for hundreds of sects have been extinguished and forgotten in the course of time, and (3) in the Decree of Judgment in the Hereafter, when all warring sects will at length see their errors.