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xxx the multi-sidedness of the Holy Quran by explaining how the text can be interpreted in a number of ways. It has many layers of meaning. He claimed that the Holy Quran imparts knowledge about the natural phenomena, essential and necessary for the spiritual advancement of mankind. He gave us the principles of the interpretation of the Holy Quran whereby one can guard against errors. The Promised Messiah as discovered that the Holy Quran contains a systematic account of the stages of spiritual advancement and he enumerated the stages which a human being is capable of attaining. He proved that the Holy Book has a perfect sequence. The verses of each chapter are related in a rational link. The Promised Messiah as established that s u rah al-F a ti h ah (the first chapter of the Holy Quran) is the synopsis of the Holy Quran, and is in a way a prologue to the Holy Quran, the rest being the text and the explanation. Lastly, he discovered how the meanings of various parts and verses of the Holy Quran and their interpretation are interlinked and have relevance to present-day needs. When the Promised Messiah as announced his mission of reforming society, he was attacked for his alleged lack of knowledge and learning. He was described as a Munshi (clerk), a half-educated and semi-literate scholar. It was stated that he had no knowledge of Arabic or the necessary qualifications to pronounce judgment on matters of higher learning. A wall of prejudice was raised against him. When this criticism spread far and wide, God granted him a special knowledge of Arabic. God endowed him with the knowledge of forty thousand roots of the Arabic language in a single night. He was granted this miraculous competence and was divinely commanded to write books in Arabic. His first attempt in Arabic prose was a chapter he appended to his book, A ’ i na-e-Kam a l a t-e-Isl a m. This chapter contained an open challenge to anyone who could find faults in his God-given command of Arabic. The number of books that he wrote in Arabic continued to pile up till it crossed the figure of twenty. The Promised Messiah as asked his critics to produce something similar or better, but nobody