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Or do you desire to question your Messenger (rasūl) as Moses was questioned, by his people, aforetime?, when they asked him to show them Allahu ta’ālā openly among other things; whoever exchanges belief for unbelief, taking the latter in place of the former by refraining from contemplating the clear proofs and by requesting others instead, has surely strayed from the even way, meaning, he has mistaken the proper path (al-sawā' essentially means al-wasat, 'middle way').