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Blessed, exalted, is He Who revealed the Criterion (al-furqān), the Qur'ān - called thus [al-furqān] because it has discriminated (faraqa) between truth and falsehood - to His servant, Muhammad "sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam", that he may be to all the worlds, [to] mankind and the jinn, but not the angels, a warner, a threatening of Allah’s chastisement