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116 to be superior? This question can be answered on the basis of a number of different points of view. . The following would serve as an instance. . Rational Basis. The Islamic teaching is fully consolidated and strengthened on a rational basis, which has planted the roots of Islamic tasawwuf (mysticism) in the holy book itselt: here there has been no need for any other Prophet to draw attention to these aspects, as happened in the case of the Jews. The earlier. Scriptures set down the teaching generally without stating the rational basis. The Holy Quran on the other hand tully states the rational basis of its teaching, dwelling convincingly on the benefit which would accrue if the teaching was observed, as well as on the harm that would result it it was not duly observed. Islamic mysticism thus has come to rest on the Holy Quran itself, unlike the case of the Jews among whom the deeper and finer aspects of the. Mosaic teaching remained unexpounded until the need was met by the mystic movement started by Jesus Christ which came to be known as. Christianity. . Middle Course. The second great point which establishes the superiority of the Islamic teaching is that it