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The accusation of forgery was a widespread polemical motif, already in pre-Islamic times used by pagan, Samaritan and Christian authors to discredit their opponents and Scriptures. In the [[Medinan suras]] it is a central theme, apparently used to explain away the contradictions between the Bible and the Qu'ran and to establish that the coming of the Prophet and the rise of Islam had indeed been predicted in the "true" [[Bible]].