Real Revolution — Page 58
58 with the divine will I created order in it and the necessary distinctions; and I saw that indeed I had the power to do all this. Then I created the nearest heaven and said إِنَّا زَيَّنَّا السَّمَاةَ الدُّنْيَا بِزِينَة الكَواكِبِ . . Then I said now we shall create man from an essence of clay. Then my condition was transformed from a state of Kashf to revelation and I found the following words flowing on my tongue : اَرَنتُ أَنْ أَسْتَخْلِف فَخَلَقْتُ أدَمَ - إِنَّا خَلَقْنَا الْإِنْسَانَ في أَحْسَنِ تَقويم (Kitaab-ul-Bariyyah P. P. 78-79). . This Kashf also shows that every Prophet has a definite mission, namely, to bring about a change, which, in relation to the old order, is tantamount to the creation of a new heaven and earth. When a new law comes, it represents the new heaven and earth; but when a new Prophet comes in order to revive a law previously given, his mission is to destroy the civilization and cultuce prevailing at the time and to establish the control of moral and spiritual values in their truest sense, this being the meaning of the new heaven and earth which he creates. The values which he re-establishes are old, but they are such as had been lost sight of by the world, and therefore new to it when re-established.