The Guiding Light — Page 498
S u rah al-A‘l a, Chapter 87 498 … ã & s # y è y ∨ s ù ¹ ! $ s W ä î 3 “ u θ ô m r & ∩∪ [87:6] Then turns it black, rotten rubbish. Commentary The verse constitutes a subtle answer to the objection: why God first revealed incomplete Laws, suited only to the needs of the peoples and the periods in which they were revealed, and then revealed the last and most perfect Shari’at in the form of the Qur’ a n which was meant to guide mankind for all time? It purports to say that God has created two kinds of things: 1. Those that like herbage and pasture satisfy man's temporary needs and thus have a limited tenure of life. The former Scriptures, like these things, fulfilled man's temporary needs and therefore, were subject to decay and death. 2. Those things such as the sun, the moon, the earth etc. , which are of permanent use for man. They will last with the universe. Like the latter the Qur’ a n is meant to be man's unerring guide till the end of time;