The Criterion

We gave Moses the Book, but disputes arose over it. Had it not been for a prior decree from your Lord, judgment would have been settled between them. Yet they remain in doubt about it.

41:45And We verily gave Moses the Scripture, but there hath been dispute concerning it; and but for a Word that had already gone forth from thy Lord, it would ere now have been judged between them; but lo! they are in hopeless doubt concerning it.