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And verily (wa-laqad is for confirmation) We know that they say, 'It is only a human that is teaching him, the Qur'ān' - this was a Christian blacksmith whom the Prophet "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam" used to frequent. Allahu ta’ālā, exalted be He, says: The tongue, the language, of him to whom they refer, to whom they incline, [with the accusation] that he is [the one] teaching him, is foreign'; while this, Qur'ān, is [in] a clear Arabic tongue, one of lucidity and clarity: so how can a foreigner be teaching him?¹⁰