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Fazle Umar 280 simple form. Jesus [as] said to the thief that he will today go to heaven but no expla- nation of the idea of heaven was given, he did not explain the reality of heaven at all. As mentioned earlier, in one sense the Christians have even surveyed their heaven. In contrast, the Holy Qur’an does not present any teaching in the form of stories but always presents it in the form of knowledge. Hence, the commentary of Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] proved that the Holy Qur’an had done a great service to the previous Books and to previous Prophets whose teachings were in the form of stories by giving them a rational form. No person can gain salvation from these stories and fables until he reads the Holy Qur’an because such is the glory of the Holy Qur’an. The nature of heaven and hell is clearly explained by Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] throughout the commentary as the subject arises. The commentary of Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] proved to be of fundamen- tal importance in his battle with other religions. With this, the victors became the vanquished and the vanquished became the victors. The Holy Qur’an, thought to be a dead book, became a living book again. T E AC H I n G S b ASE d O n R AT IO n A L I T y A n d w I S d OM The Promised Messiah [as] made an exceptionally important discovery of the Holy Qur’an. Unlike the Bible, the Holy Qur’an never makes an assertion unless it also points to the reason for that assertion. Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] proceeded to make a study of the Holy Qur’an, with this unique feature of the Holy Book in view, to open the doors to many other important truths. With this master-key firmly in his grip he found that thousands of assertions which were thought to be unsupported by rational demonstration, and which devotees of the Holy Qur’an were supposed to believe on authority as assertions of Almighty God, were found to carry their rational basis with them. The advance of science and the general development of scientific