5 Preface فَسَتُبصِرُ وَيُبصِرونَYusuf AliSoon wilt thou see,1 and they will see,Though Al Muṣṭafā’s nature raised him above the petty spite of his contemporaries, an appeal is made to their reason and to the logic of events. Was it not his accusers that were really mad? What happened to Al Walid ibn Al Mughayrah, or Abū Jahl, or Abū Lahab?-and to God’s Messenger and those who followed his guidance? The world’s history gives the answer. And the appeal is not only to his contemporaries, but for all time.