Essence of the Holy Qur’an — Page 79
Y ā S ī n 79 Similarly, when man’s soul becomes corroded and contaminated God causes spiritual water to descend from heaven in the form of Divine revelation. The S u rah then gives another simile to explain the same subject. It points to the law of the alternation of day and night. It further points to a revealed truth that God has created all things in pairs; there are pairs even in vegetables and in inorganic matter. This simile points out that all true knowledge is the result of the combination of Divine revelation and human reason. Towards its close the S u rah draws attention to a great and bright future for Islam. It says that the Divine decree that a people, like the Arabs, who had remained very low in the scale of humanity for long centuries, would now rise to the height of material power and spiritual glory, is not an idle dream or poetic fancy. A Prophet of God, a Divine Messenger, has appeared among them and he will lead them to the highest pinnacle of spiritual and material grandeur and glory.