The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 120
120. Essence of Islam-III their degree of knowledge, reason and intelligence, but it is not possible that they should achieve the grades and ranks which will be bestowed upon those who follow the. Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. ) The blind obviously cannot arrive at the high stations of those who are guided by the light of. Prophethood. This is Divine grace which He bestows on whom He wills. . Now, observe the outrage that is committed by Miań 'Abdul Hakim who disregards hundreds of verses of the. Holy Qur'an which proclaim emphatically that the profession of belief in the Unity of God alone is not enough for the achievement of salvation and that faith in the. Holy Prophet is also essential; and, like the Jews, he twists the meanings of two or three concise verses and insists upon his own interpretation. Every sensible person can realize that if those verses mean what 'Abdul Hakim opines, then it is goodbye to Islām and the commandments like prayer and fasting etc. , which have been taught by the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) are rendered vain and meaningless. If it were true that everyone can attain salvation through his fancied version of the Unity of God, then the rejection of. Prophets and the repudiation of faith would be no sin and would do no harm. However, there is not a single verse in the Holy Qur'ān which relieves a Muslim from obedience to the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. ) Even if these two or three verses which. Miāń Abdul Hakim relies upon had appeared to him contradictory to hundreds of verses of the contrary import, he should have subordinated them to the large number of other verses, and should not have disregarded the latter and thus advanced towards apostasy. In truth there