" Commercial-Theological Terms" are intended to supplement the concept of its "sources" and the Prophet’s supposed authorship of it. Also, studies relating to specific concepts and teachings in the Qur’ân, such as "predestination" and "free-will", and the social laws of the Qur’ân, have been designed to demonstrate its supposed "sources" and the Prophet’s authorship of it. In sum, the orientalists’ studies conjure up the Prophet as an extraordinary multilingual scholar with thorough acquaintance with the prevailing religious and philosophical systems, including a knowledge of a number of defunct ancient languages! Inconsistently enough, it has at the same time been suggested that because of his lack of knowledge and education, the Prophet received instructions and information from a number of persons in order to give out the Qur’ân!

As ancillary to this purpose, the history of the text and compilation of the Qur’ân, and its textual integrity, have been subjected to critical analysis and discussion and, beginning with the theory of the Prophet’s having himself composed and compiled the Qur’ân the orientalists have of late ended up with the suggestion that it was not he who did so compose and compile it but that it was composed and compiled some two centuries after him out of his reported "logia" or utterances! They have been led on to this absurd position because of their dependence, rather uncritically, on the Goldziher-Schacht hyper-criticism of the Islamic sources.

The orientalist studies of the Qur’ân and of Islam clearly indicate their wide knowledge; but because their purpose in general is to make people misunderstand rather than understand Islam, their usual method is misinterpretation of the texts, twisting of the facts, generalization on solitary or ambiguous evidence, drawing maximum number of conclusions on minimum number of facts and often baseless assumptions, wide speculations and employment of double standards. As a corollary to these methods many an orientalist advertises his "objectivity" and "impartiality", though what he writes clearly illustrates his subjectivity and prejudice. Criticism of the absurd views and faulty methods of the orientalists has sometimes emanated from members of their own ranks, but with such rare exceptions the above remarks apply to the works of the orientalists in general throughout the ages.