7 Preface ما سَمِعنا بِهٰذا فِي المِلَّةِ الآخِرَةِ إِن هٰذا إِلَّا اختِلاقٌYusuf Ali“We never heard (the like) of this among the people of these latter days:1 this is nothing but a madeup tale!”'Whatever may have been the case in the past', they said, 'our own immediate ancestors worshipped these idols in Mecca, and why should we give them up? Self-complacency was stronger with them than Truth; and so they call Truth “a made-up tale"! Some Commentators interpret al Millat al Akhirah to refer to the last religion preached before Islam, viz. Christianity, which had itself departed from Monotheism to Trinity. (R).