all mankind were once one single community whereupon god raised up the prophets as heralds of glad tidings and as warners and through them bestowed revelation from on high setting forth the truth so that it might decide between people with regard to all on which they had come to hold divergent views. yet none other than the selfsame people who had been granted this began out of mutual jealousy to disagree about its meaning after all evidence of the truth had come unto them. but god guided the believers unto the truth about which by his leave they had disagreed for god guides onto a straight way him that wills .
كان الناس أمة واحدة فبعث الله النبيين مبشرين ومنذرين وأنزل معهم الكتاب بالحق ليحكم بين الناس فيما اختلفوا فيه وما اختلف فيه إلا الذين أوتوه من بعد ما جاءتهم البينات بغيا بينهم فهدى الله الذين آمنوا لما اختلفوا فيه من الحق بإذنه والله يهدي من يشاء إلى صراط مستقيم