Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 265
265 sentence—was revealed in perfect order. Such is the perfect arrangement of its contents that other books and scriptures pale in comparison. Other books are arranged only with the view that one subject should follow another in an orderly manner. The arrangement of the Holy Quran, on the other hand, is such that not only are its contents perfectly ordered but they remain so even when they are viewed from various angles. One may start a commentary from any valid point of view and the whole text will go along with that. This quality is never found in the works of mortals. The tenth principle revealed to the Promised Messiah as was that the Holy Quran contains a systematic account of the vari - ous degrees and stages of good and evil. The Holy Book tells us what virtues lead to what other virtues, and what vices lead to what other vices. Knowledge of this kind is of inestimable value in reforming one’s morals. With the gradual increase in knowledge one is able to acquire virtues and get rid of bad habits in a way that had not been possible before. The good life grows by stages and each stage can be defined and described. Thus the Promised Messiah as revealed yet another miracle of the Holy Quran in that it informs man of the fountains from which good and evil flow, so that he can quench his thirst or avert a deluge that would inun - date him. The eleventh point revealed to the Promised Messiah as was that S u rah al-F a ti h ah contains a complete summary of the Holy Quran and lays down its basic teachings in a nutshell. He wrote many detailed and comprehensive commentaries on this short chapter and derived amazing and faith-inspiring points from it. He thus made the task of the defence of Islam much easier,