31 Preface وَقالوا لَولا نُزِّلَ هٰذَا القُرآنُ عَلىٰ رَجُلٍ مِنَ القَريَتَينِ عَظيمٍYusuf AliAlso, they say: “Why is not this Qur-ān sent down to some leading man in either of the two1 (Chief) cities?”The world judges by its own low standards. From a worldly point of view, the Prophet was poor and an orphan. Why, they thought, should he be so richly endowed in spiritual knowledge and power? If such a gift had to come to a man among them, it was the right (they foolishly said) of one of the chiefs in either the sacred city of Mecca, or the fertile garden-city of Ta'if!