22 Preface وَما صاحِبُكُم بِمَجنونٍYusuf AliAnd (O people!) your Companion is not One possessed;1After describing the credentials of the Archangel Gabriel, the Text now appeals to the people to consider their own “Companion”, the Prophet, who had been born among them and had lived with them, and was known to be an honourable, truthful, and trustworthy man. If Gabriel was the one who brought the Message to him, then there was no question of demoniacal possession. And the Prophet had seen him in his inspired vision “in the clear horizon”.