and they divided not until after knowledge had come to them through spite between themselves and had not a word gone forth from thy lord for an appointed term the affair would surely have been judged between them. and verily those who have been made inheritors of the book after them are in doubt thereof dubitating.
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