The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 8
اليَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمُ الْإِسْلَامَ دِينًا 7. This day have I perfected your religion for you and completed My favour upon you and have chosen for you. Islam as religion. . This means that God requires us to conform to the reality inherent in the word Islām. Here there is a clear claim that the Holy Qur'an comprehends the perfect teaching and that the time of the revelation of the Holy Qur'ān was the time when such perfect teaching could be revealed. The Qur'ān alone is entitled to make this claim. . No other heavenly book has put forward such a claim. . Both the Torah and the Gospel refrain from making this claim. On the contrary, the Torah sets out God's commandment that: "I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, and put My words in his mouth and whosoever will not hearken unto My words I will require it of him. ”. It is obvious, therefore, that if the Torah had been adequate for meeting the needs of subsequent ages, there would have been no necessity for the coming of another. Prophet, listening to whom was made obligatory. In the same way the Gospel has nowhere claimed that its teaching is perfect and comprehensive. But there is a clear confession that: "I have yet many things to say, but ye cannot bear them now but that when the Paraclete is come he will lead you to the whole truth. " 7 al-Ma'idah, 5:4 [Publisher] 8 Deuteronomy, 18:18 [Publisher] 9 John 16:12-13 [Publisher]