The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 478
478. Essence of Islam-1 sense that though the Word of God is unlimited, yet as the corruption for the reform of which the Word of God descended, and the needs that were fulfilled through revelation were limited, only that much of the Divine. Word was revealed as was needed by mankind. The Holy. Qur'ān was revealed at a time when all possible needs had become apparent and all moral and doctrinal and verbal matters and human conduct had been corrupted, and all kinds of excesses and vices had reached their limit. Therefore, the teaching of the Holy Qur'an was all comprehensive. It is in this sense that the law revealed in the Qur'an is perfect and final, and previous revealed laws are incomplete, as the evils for the reform of which previous revealed Books had come, had not arrived at their climax, but at the time of the revelation of the Holy. Qur'an they had reached their maximum. Now the distinction between the Holy Qur'an and other revealed Books is that even if those Books had been safeguarded in every way, their teaching being incomplete, a perfect teaching, that is to say, the Holy Qur'ān would have been needed to be revealed; but no other Book is needed after the Holy. Qur'an as there can be nothing beyond perfection. . If it was to be supposed that the true principles of the. Holy Qur'an would be perverted like the Vedās and the. Bible and associates would be set up with God Almighty, and the teaching of the Unity of God would be altered and perverted, and that the millions of Muslims who are established on the Unity of God would fall into shirk and worship of creatures, then in such case another law would have to be revealed and another Messenger would arrive, but all this supposition is out of the question. The perversion of the teaching of the Holy Qur'an is not possible as God Almighty has said: