The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 401
The Holy Qur'ān 401. On the Day of Judgement, the Qur'an will confirm or deny your faith. There is no other book under heaven beside the Qur'ān which can furnish you with salvation. . God has been very Beneficent towards you that He has bestowed a Book like the Qur'an upon you. I tell you truly that if the Book that is recited to you had been recited to the Christians, they would not have perished. If this bounty of guidance which has been bestowed upon you had been bestowed upon the Jews in place of the. Torah, some of their sects would not have denied the Day of Judgement. Then value this favour that has been bestowed upon you. It is a very dear favour; it is great wealth. If the Qur'an had not been revealed the whole world would have been left like a dirty lump of flesh. . The Qur'an is the Book in contrast with which all other guidance amounts to nothing. [Kashti Nūḥ, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, Vol. 19, pp. 26-27]. In addition to all the excellences and beauties of style and idiom, the Holy Qur'an is the compendium of wisdom and knowledge, and possesses such a spiritual effect that following it truly a person achieves prosperity, inner light and expansion of mind, and becomes accepted of. God and worthy of being addressed by Him. The Holy. Qur'an creates in its follower those lights and hidden graces and provides him with such certain supports that are not found in others. He receives from God that delicious and comforting word in consequence of which he realizes more and more every moment that by the true following of the Holy Qur'an and true obedience to the. Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allāh be on him] he has arrived at a stage which is special for those whom. God loves, and that he has been bestowed such Divine