The Criterion

We gave Moses the Scripture, but people disputed over it. Had it not been for a prior decree from your Lord, their matter would have been settled. They remain in unsettling doubt about it.

11:110And we verily gave unto Moses the Scripture, and there was strife thereupon; and had it not been for a Word that had already gone forth from thy Lord, the case would have been judged between them, and lo! they are in grave doubt concerning it.