Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 131
— Part I 130 belonging to the same law, the one vouchsafed to Abraham as. The central theme of religion is referred to as worship of God with total dedication and to abide by the practices of Abraham as and the teachings he brought. The word Millah is used which covers this meaning. However, the details of the teachings are not described. One guiding principle mentioned is invariably applicable to all Divine laws revealed before the Quran, and that is that God always burdened people only with what they could take. He bound them to such practices as were in accordance with their requirements and their socio-economic moral environments. This continued until we reach the time of Moses as. The Mosaic law is discussed in far greater detail than that of earlier Prophets as. In the course of elaborating some injunctions of that law, the Holy Quran throws light on the instructions regarding food with respect to the time of Jacob as. In the Quran, the Holy Founder sa of Islam is likened to Moses as in many respects. Again, we find mention of the similarity in the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 18:18), where Moses as is informed of a future Prophet sa who would be born from among his brothers and who would be likened unto him. Why do we read such an elaborate account of the law of Moses as in the Holy Quran, as against almost complete silence regarding the teachings of Noah as who was himself a great Law-bearing Prophet as ? In