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themselves. When he came to Makkah he found the Prophet was doing the same thing, citing the Qur’an, bowed down and prostrated himself. He then said, “We have heard it, if we want we can say something like it,” namely, what he had had heard from the worshippers in Ḥīrah. He was so sure that the Prophet was not sent by Allah, that he asked Allah to rain down stones on them. This reminds us of the late Ahmad Deedat who was so convinced that Jesus had never claimed himself to be God, and never said, “I am God, worship Me,” in any Bible in any language. He said that if they find any, he would worship him, which means, he would be an apostate, a Christian. Although it is true that Allah sent Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. but He would not do what the Quraysh idolaters wished, namely, to punish them, as the Prophet was among them, and many of them asked Allah’s forgiveness. The Qur’an said that Allah is "the creator of everything" َ Q. 6:102; 39:62 and 40:62), and challenged them )(خالق ك ِّل َشيئ that their idols could not even create a fly. Allah said, ون من َ ين َتدع َ ب َم َثل َفاس َتمعوا لَه إنَّ الَّذ َ َيا أَي َها ال َّناس ضر َّ دون ّللا لَن َيخلقوا ذ َبابا َولَو اج َت َمعوا لَه َوإن َيسلبهم الذ َباب َّ ف َما َقدَروا.الطالب َوال َمطلوب َ ضع َ َشيئا َل َيس َتنقذوه منه )37-31:ّللا َل َقوي َعزيز (الحج َ َّ َّّللا َح َّق َقدره إن َ َّ O people! A parable is set forth, therefore listen to it: surely those whom you call upon besides Allah cannot create a fly, though they should all gather for it, and should the fly snatch away anything from them, they could not take it back from it, weak are the invoker and the invoked.(Q. 22:73-74) Ibn ‘Abbas said that the idolaters overlaid their idols with saffron, then it became dry and the fly took it away. Al-Suddī said that they gave them food, and the fly came and ate it.