Whatsoever[108] verse We abrogate or cause thee to forget, We will produce one better than it or like unto it. Dost thou not know that God is all-powerful?
Dost thou not know that to God belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and that beside God ye have no protector or defender?
(ii. 100, 101.)
XXXV.
When We substitute a verse in the stead of a verse (and God best knoweth what He revealeth), they say, ‘Thou art but a forger!’—but the greater number of them know not!
Say, The Holy Spirit Gabriel hath brought it down from thy Lord with truth, to stablish those who have believed, and as a direction and good tidings unto the Muslims.
And We well know that they say, ‘Only a man[109] teacheth him.’ The tongue of him to whom they incline is foreign, and this is the perspicuous Arabic tongue.
(xvi. 103-105).
XXXVI.