And the polytheists in Allah did not separate in their religions thus becoming sects and parties except from after what the knowledge came to them and the argument stood upon them, and nothing carried them on that except the transgression and the stubbornness, and were it not for a word that preceded from your Lord-O Messenger-with the delay of the punishment from them to a named term and it is the Day of Resurrection, it would have surely been decided between them by the hastening of the punishment of the disbelievers from them. And indeed those who were inherited the Torah and the Gospel from after these differing ones in the truth are surely in a doubt from the religion and the faith placing in the suspicion and the loathed difference.