IBN-HISHAAM has narrated that the Messenger of God was in the mosque, and some of the chiefs and leading men of Quraish were round him. The prophet made a speech, and condemned the idols and idolaters, and rehearsed to them such verses saying:-

      ``You and the false gods that you worship apart from Allah, are all fuel for the Hell in which you all will live for ever.''

      After his speech the prophet left the mosque and a dispute raised up behind him:

      The heathens said to one another, Mohammad had no reasonable answer to our questions, and for that, he said that we are all in Hell.

      ABDOLLAH-IBN-ZABARI, who had joined the group a little while after the prophet had left, said:- ``If I was here, then I would give him some knocking down answers. If as he said; we and all our gods are in Hell, he should have known that, there are some Jews who have taken OZAIR for a god, and Christians worship Jesus Christ as a god or as a son of god. Therefore, according to Mohammad's Idea, the angels and some prophets like OZAIR and Jesus will have to be fuel for the Hell!?''

      Then IBN-ZABARI added that; it is not so bad for us to live in the Hell, with the angels of God, and Jesus Christ,and Ozair; and hence the verse:-

      ``And when the son of Mary was cited as an instance, your people made a laughstock of it and said:- ``Are your gods better or Jesus Christ!? They cited him to you only by way of wrangling and dispute, because they are a contentious people.''