Real Revolution — Page 111
III you kings, and gave you what He gave not to any other among the peoples". (V:21). This verse bears out that the expression ni'mat, as used in the. Holy Quran, embraces (i) appointment and continuity of Prophets (ii) kingship: (iii) and a teaching better than that of any other system. These things stand clearly deducible from the following expressions respectively: the appointment of Prophets bestowal of kingship; and the bestowal of something which He had not given to anyone else, namely, a teaching, better than any other, in which one could take justifiable pride. . Temporal Power Necessary for some Rligions. Here a question might arise in the mind of some: How is kingship to be taken as a favour in the religious sense? The answer is that in religions where the shariah embraces a teaching on thepolitical and cultural aspects of man's life kingship is necessary, without which the teaching bearing on these points cannot be put into force. Kingship here does not however, mean. the kind of kingshio which is divorced from moral and spiritual values, since that type of secular authority is a curse, not a blessing. . Here kingship means the type of secular authority that puts the laws of the shariah into operation, as in the case of David or Solomon. Secular and temporal authority is thus given as a matter of necessity to a