2 Preface ما ضَلَّ صاحِبُكُم وَما غَوىٰYusuf AliYour Companion is neither1 astray nor being misled.'Your Companion” is the Prophet Muḥammad, who had lived among the Quraish all his life. He is defended from three kinds of charges that the Unbelievers brought against him: (1) that he was going astray, either through defect of intelligence or through carelessness; (2) that he was being misled or deceived by evil spirits; and (3) that he spoke out of a whim or impulse, or from a selfish desire to impress his own personality. None of these charges were true. On the contrary he had direct inspiration from God.