Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 98
99 The Promised Messiah as has thrown light on this topic at length. For the time being I present two extracts of the Promised Messiah as that are related to this topic. He says: “In the beginning human beings were fewer in number; so fewer in number as to be called a nation. Therefore, only one book sufficed them. When thereafter people spread in the world, and inhabitants of every region constituted a nation, and became unaware of the circumstances of each other as they had far distanced from each other, then, at that time, the prudence and expedience of God Almighty demanded that every nation should be given separate Prophets and books; so did it happen. And when mankind had multiplied in number and ways had opened for interaction, and means had become available for the people of one country to meet the other, and when they had learnt that mankind inhabited such and such region, and when God Almighty desired to again unite them like one nation and gather them after dissension, He sent one Book for all the countries. And in this Book He commanded the people of various countries to accept it and believe in it when it reached them. The Book is the Holy Quran which has come to establish a relationship between all the countries. All the Books before the Holy Quran were called Mukhta ss ul Qaum , that is, they were meant for their respective nations only… But, at the end of all of them came the Holy Quran which was a UNIVERSAL BOOK and it was not meant for a particular people but was meant for all. Similarly, the Holy Quran came for an umma who