The Shining Lamp — Page 74
74 1 اَهْيِف ٌبُتُك ٌةَمِّيَق So given this situation, it is incumbent that as far as the reach of [human] knowledge and understanding of the Divine can go, the domain of Quranic teaching will have reached there as well; and I am not alone in affirming this fact, but the Quran itself ascribes this description to itself and calls itself ْ ْمَل ُ الْكُتُب ک َ أ —[‘the Most Perfect of all Books’]. It is evident, therefore, that had there been any remaining stage with respect to the understanding of the Divine that had not been mentioned in the Holy Quran, then the Holy Quran would not have had the right to proclaim itself ُ ْمَل ک َ ْ أ الْكُتُب —[the Most Perfect of all Books]. We cannot grant a ha d i th any status greater than that they in some places present in greater detail the things summarized in the Quran. Most ignorant and unworthy are those people who do not describe the Holy Quran in the way that its description is present within the Holy Quran; rather, they are trying to bring it to an ordinary and lower rank. So, in short, this is also a prophecy that was bestowed upon me from the Divine Court and which no opponent could com- pete with, and thus God humiliated all my opponents. The miraculous insights of the Holy Quran, which are lim- itless, are evidenced in this way as well that while its apparent and ordinary meanings are known to every believer and sinner, Muslim and k a fir [disbeliever]–and there is no reason why they should not be known–so then what superiority do the Prophets 1. Therein are lasting commandments ( S u rah al-Bayyinah , 98:4). [Publishers]