Real Revolution — Page 39
39 applies to them all, namely, that sometimes they are of a kind that after they have met a need of the time, they have to be effaced and replaced with another; while at other times people come to forget them, and what needs to be done is only this that the order which had come to oust a. Divine order, through thoughtlessness on the part of the people concerned, should be duly revived with full force. When a previous Divine order reaches a stage where, having fulfilled its mission, it has to be eliminated, Allah replaces it with one which is better, more suited to the new needs; but when an old order still remains applicable to prevailing conditions, and only happens to have been forgotten or tampered with, Allah revives the old one- and Allah has the power to do both these things. . And Allah adds: Do you not know why we do these things? Indeed We do so in order to bring about a great revolution, to create a new heaven and a new earth. . Evidently, in the days of the Holy Prophet, what enraged the Unbelievers so much was not the mere fact that the Holy Prophet was putting forth a viewpoint different to their own: the danger they sensed a danger of which the mere thought was for them a veritable torture-was that the Holy. Quran should come to rule over their lives. The