And, indeed, [O Muhammad,] We sent forth apostles before thy time; some of them We have mentioned to thee,1 and some of them We have not mentioned to thee. And it was not given to any apostle to bring forth a miracle other than by God's leave.2 Yet when God's will becomes rqanifest,3 judgment will [already] have been passed in all justice, and lost will be, then and there, all who tried to reduce to pothing [whatever they could not understand].4