Arabs of pre-Islamic times," he tells us, "may, with reference to religion,
be divided into various classes. Some of them denied the Creator, the Resurrection, and
men's return to GOD (to be judged), and asserted that Nature possesses in itself the power
of bestowing life, but that Time destroys. Others believed in a Creator and a creation
produced by Him out of nothing, but yet denied the Resurrection and the return to GOD.
Others1 believed in a Creator, a creation and some