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64 and the religion of truth, that He may make it prevail over every other religion, even though the idolaters may dislike it. ” 25 In this connection, I would like to tell that the part of the verse up to (over every other religion) has occurred at three different places in the Holy Quran, and at all these places it signifies a different meaning and subject matter. Allah the Exalted says here that He it is Who is perfect in respect of His Being and attributes; He it is Who sent His Messenger with guidance and true religion; The objective of his advent is, so that He [Allah] may make the shariah and the Messenger prevail over every other religion. Once His true religion prevails the superiority of the Messenger will automatically be proved. Here (that He may make it prevail over every other religion) implies that all the faiths before the advent of the Holy Prophet sa , which had been distorted, would be defeated whenever they competed with Islam. The Holy Quran has been equipped with such arguments that it is capable of prevailing over a false faith even if it appeared after the Islamic shariah, as the word (religion) in this verse is not confined only to the religions of the past. For instance, Bahais have made a new religion of their own in contrast to the Holy Quran. The Holy Quran claims to also possess the ability to crush the head of any shariah that appears after it, because it is the Word of a God who is All a mul Ghuy u b , Who is aware of all that is to occur in future. Thus, Islam is the only religion against which neither