Also, “And they say, ‘Shall we then abandon our gods for a
crazed poet?’” [Qur’án 37:36] The implication of this verse is manifest. Behold
what they observed after the verses were revealed. They called Him a poet,
scoffed at the verses of God, and exclaimed saying: “These words of his are but
tales of the Ancients!” By this they meant that those words which were spoken
by the peoples of old Muhammad hath compiled and called them the Word of God.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan)
