and they did not become divided until after knowledge had come to them out of envy among themselves and had not a word gone forth from your lord till an appointed term certainly judgment would have been given between them and those who were made to inherit the book after them are most surely in disquieting doubt concerning it.
وما تفرقوا إلا من بعد ما جاءهم العلم بغيا بينهم ولولا كلمة سبقت من ربك إلى أجل مسمى لقضي بينهم وإن الذين أورثوا الكتاب من بعدهم لفي شك منه مريب