The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 470
470. Essence of Islam-1 there is no mention of salvation or hell in the Torah, except some slight indications here and there. In the same way, there is no detailed mention in the Torah of the perfect attributes of God Almighty. Had the Torah contained any Surah like the one in the Holy Qur'ān: قُلْ هُوَ اللهُ اَحَدُ اللهُ الصَّمَدُه لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدُه ولَمْ يَكُن لَّهُ كُفُوًا أَحَدُ 0 278 then perhaps the Christians might have refrained from the worship of a creature. Also the Torah has not set forth the degrees of rights but the Qur'an has set forth this teaching also in perfection. For instance, it says: إِنَّ اللهَ يَأْمُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ وَالْإِحْسَانِ وَإِيتَاى ذِي الْقُرْبَى 279. Allāh enjoins equity, benevolence and graciousness between kindred. . This means that our sympathy with mankind should be prompted by natural eagerness and not by any motive of seeking acknowledgement, as for instance, a mother has sympathy for her child. The Torah also fails to establish the existence of God and His Unity and His perfect attributes on the basis of reason, but the Holy Qur'ān has established all these doctrines and the need of revelation and Prophethood with arguments based on reason, and by stating everything in a philosophic way, has made it easy for seekers after truth to appreciate it. These arguments are put forth in such an excellent manner in the Holy. Qur'an that it is not within anyone's power, for instance, to put forth any argument on the existence of God which 278 Proclaim: He is Allāh, the Single Allāh, the Self-Existing and. Besought of all. He begets not nor is He begotten; and there is no one like unto Him. '-al-Ikhlāṣ, 112:2-5 [Publisher] 279 al-Nahl, 16:91 [Publisher]