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 Quran, where God mentions it. He says, "O men, now is an evident proof come unto you from your Lord, and We have sent down unto you manifest light." By manifest light is meant the Quran. Again He says, "O men, now is the apostle come unto you from your Lord; believe, therefore, it will be better for you," and again, "But those among them who are well-grounded in knowledge, and faithful, who believe in that which hath been sent down unto thee, and that which hath been sent down unto the prophets before thee;" and again "God is the witness of the revelation which He hath sent down unto thee; He sent it down with his special knowledge; the angels are also witness thereof; but God is a sufficient witness." If it be said, how can the first principle be known, that is, that there is a class of men who give the Law to teh people by divine revelation; and so also, how to know the second principle, that is, that which the