Real Revolution — Page 73
73 to take care of their needs better than they could themselves individually, ensuring a lasting condition of prosperity and peace called Jannat, or. Paradise - a place of bliss. . The human mind in the time of Adam, however, was not fully developed. nor had its undesirable tendencies yet started to manitest themselves in the novel ways they did at later periods, except in the case of one or two. Therefore the rudimentary teaching given to him embraced the barest basic concepts without which no social unit can start an ordered, settled life. Wherever Adam is mentioned in the Holy Quran, we nowhere read of the deeper and subtler moral and spiritual truths embraced by later teachings when any reference is made to the teaching given to him, only these four elementary things are mentioned. He sowed thus the first seed of civilized lite, insignificant according to modern standards, but at the time it must have been a most staggering revolution. It was, in fact, a revolution which lies at the back of all subsequent development and progress right up to our own day. . SECOND ERA: MOVEMENT OF NOAH. When gradually the followers of Adam started to make progress, and man became familiar with and accustomed to the restraints placed on his conduct, and with duties imposed on him in common