Tafseer of The Cloaked One · Al-Muddaththir · 74:25
This is not but the word of a human being."
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His statement: إِنْ هَذَا إِلا قَوْلُ الْبَشَرِ ("This is nothing but the word of a mortal"). The Exalted — praised be His mention — here informs about what al-Walīd said concerning the Qurʾān: إِنْ هَذَا إِلا قَوْلُ الْبَشَرِ ("This is nothing but the word of a mortal"), that is to say: this which Muḥammad ﷺ recites is nothing other than the word of a human being. He says: it is nothing but the speech of a son of Adam, and it is not the speech of Allah.
