And they say : 'O you to whom the Qur'aan is revealed! Assuredly you are possessed!

(When the Prophet recited the verses of the Qur'aan revealed to him by the Archangel for the first time, it caused such a hue and cry among the idolaters of Mecca that they could not digest their complexity and style, their content and the diction in which they were arrayed, - better than anything they had ever heard before; better than the poems written by the best of their poets; better than the wisdom taught to them by the best of their sages; better than the guidance given to them by the most forthright of their guides and leaders; so, the only way in which they could explain them away was by ascribing them to mysticism and incantations rather than to Him Who revealed them, because in their book He did not exist; in their past He did not feature and in their narrow world He did not have a share. Reminiscent of the way in which Pharaoh had renounced MUSA (pbu) as a wizard and a magician, they too cast the Prophet in the same mould and accused him of either being an impostor or a sorcerer, inspired by jinns and taught by the devil, calling on him to produce proof or bring angels from heaven to vouchsafe for his credentials, not realizing that if the angels did come from Allah, it would be to their own detriment, for they would then get no respite, as explained in the next two verses).