The germ or basis of the misinterpretation is probably to be looked for in the idea that, the purpose of God being eternal, all that He purposes and commands and brings to pass was fixed and settled from all eternity by a hard and fast decree; whereas the Qur'an represents the working out of the purpose of God as being not the result of a distant, fixed and impersonal decree, but as the effectual working of a Will which enters into the closest contact and the most sympathetic relation with the world which He has created.

S.P.C.K. PRESS, VEPERY, MADRAS 1916.