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And they did not become divided, that is, the adherents of the [monotheistic] religions [did not become divided] in religion - so that some affirmed the Oneness [of Allahu ta’ālā], while others rejected it - except after the knowledge, of His Oneness, had come to them, out of [jealous] rivalry, on the part of the disbelievers, among themselves. And were it not for a Word that preceded from your Rabb, to defer requital [of them], until an appointed term, [until] the Day of Resurrection, it would have [already] been judged between them, to chastise the disbelievers in this world. And indeed those who were made heirs to the Scripture after them, namely, the Jews and the Christians, are truly in grave doubt concerning him, Muhammad "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam".