( 63 ) to peifoim, nor can any injustice be supposedin Him, nor
can He be under any obligationto any peison whatsoever That His ereatuies, however, should be bound to serve Him
ariseth from His having declaiedby the tonguesof the prophets that it was due to Him from them The worship of Him is not simply the dictate of the understanding,but He sent messengersto carry to men His commandsand promises and threats, whose veracity He proved by manifest miracles,1 wheieby men are obliged to give credit to them in those
things that they relate.2 1 Muhammad's miracles were the ÂŁydt, signs (texts of the Koran) See Hirschfeld ' On the Qoran,' pp 1, 8
-1Grhazzallspeaksas an orthodoxMoslem,but Greek influencesare manifestin this passage, and his statementson the thorny subjectof grace and works recall those of the groat Christian Platomst Augustine