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sufficient for establishing the divine origin
of the Noble Quran and the truthfulness
of the Holy Prophet sa , and does not
need anything else to support it. The composite
argument is the argument whose
validity requires a set of mutually dependent
arguments, which, when considered as
a whole—i.e. when all its components are
taken into account collectively—is found
to be so perfect that it necessarily establishes
the truth of the Holy Quran and of
the Holy Prophet; but when each component
is considered individually, it may
lack the required degree of cogency. And
the reason for this discrepancy is that the
value of the whole always differs from the
sum of its components. For instance, ten
people can collectively lift a weight, but if