Real Revolution — Page 95
95 tain aspects of the teaching of the Torah specially before the people. Therefore God says in the Holy. Quran about Jesus: ايد نَاهُ بروح القدس (2:254) "We helped him with the spirit of holiness". The. Shariah was completed in the Mosaic dispensation, the meaning growing to assume the form of an organised law, of which no instance had been seen before. Gradually, however, the minds of men drifted from the inner kernel of the teaching to the outward form or shell. On the other hand, human perception had meanwhile risen to a higher stage where it stood ripe for another lesson in tasawwuf. . So Jesus was raised so that on the one hand he should fulfil the Torah, as he has himself said: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the Prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfil" (Matt. 5:17); and on the other he should explain the wisdom of that teaching to the people, taking their mind back from the shell to the kernel. . His mission was to tell the people that the outward form of shariah was intended only to establish an inner attitude of the mind, the real thing being the cleanliness and purity of heart. On the one hand. Jesus re-established the law of Moses in its original. form; on the other he impressed upon those who were concentrating only on its outward form that