Arba'in — Page 19
Number Two 19 be made known who the guilty ones are. Say: I have been commanded by God, and I am the first of all the believers. Allah, Who has sent His Messenger, has sent him with two objectives. One is indeed that He has graced him with the bounty of guidance; in other words, God granted him the spiritual insight to recognize His way, made him dis- tinct with revealed knowledge, and illuminated his heart through visions and ilh a m [revelations]. And thus, in this way, He Himself helped him to fulfil the responsibility that he was required to discharge vis-a-vis Divine cogni- zance, love, and worship. For the reason, He gave him the title ‘Mahdi’ [‘the Guided One’]. The other objective for which he has been sent is to heal, through the Religion of Truth, those who are spirit- ually ill; that is, to remove doubts from the hearts by solving hundreds of enigmas and complexities related to the Shariah [Islamic Religious Law]. Therefore, from this perspective, the name ‘ I s a [ Jesus] is given to him; that is, the one who heals the sick. Thus, in this noble verse, there are two phrases— ‘with guidance’ and ‘the Religion of Truth’. The first phrase indicates that the Appointed One is the Mahdi, [the Guided One], and he has been puri- fied by the hand of God. And God Alone is his teacher. And the second phrase—viz. ‘the Religion of Truth’ — shows that the Appointed One is ‘ I s a [ Jesus], and he has been given the knowledge to cleanse the sick and warn them about their diseases. And He has granted him the Religion of Truth so that he may make the sick belonging to all religions realize that they need help, cure them, and