Real Revolution — Page 113
113 include both continuity of Prophethood and establishment of khilaafat. Further Allah sasy: إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُونَ . "Indeed We Ourselves have sent down the Holy. Quran and We Ourselves shall be responsible for its due preservation". (XV: 9) i. e. the teaching given to the Holy Prophet is purely from God alone, no one else having anything to do with it. It stands in the words in which it was revealed; and it is to be preserved in this condition by God Himself, which fact would ensure that it would maintain its superiority, since Allah says that if any portion of the word of God is abrogated, He brings something like it or something better to replace it with. This establishes beyond doubt that a scripture that is allowed to stand is indeed the best, and intended to endure on that account. The Holy Quran, therefore. is not only better than the previous scriptures, but would always retain that position; and there would never be any question of its being abrogated. To understand the comparative position of the Holy. Quran and the previous Scriptures an example would be helpful. We know that roughly speaking the Afghan Government comprises the same kind of departments of administration as the British Goverment, but in point of efficiency and usefulness there