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And when Our verses, namely, the Qur'ān, were being recited to them, they said, 'We have already heard! If we wish we can speak the like of this - al-Nadr b. al-Hārith⁶ said this, for he used to travel on trading business to al-Hīra, where he would buy books containing the tales of the Persians, and would recount these to the Meccans; this, Qur'ān, is nothing but the fables, the lies, of the ancients'.