68 Preface لَقَد وُعِدنا هٰذا نَحنُ وَآباؤُنا مِن قَبلُ إِن هٰذا إِلّا أَساطيرُ الأَوَّلينَAli Quli QaraiCertainly we and our fathers were promised this before. [But] these are just myths of the ancients.’