Understanding Salat — Page 74
Understanding S al A t 74 In other words, it first lays down the essential, lofty divine insights, the traces of which had been lost and obliterated from earlier teachings, and no sage or philosopher had so much as hinted at them. Moreover, these divine insights have not been expounded in an unnecessary and redundant man- ner, but have been set forth at a time and in an age when such remedial measures were direly needed for the reformation of that time. Had they not been stated, the ruin and destruction of the age was inevi- table. Again, these lofty divine insights have not been stated in a deficient and incomplete manner; rather, they are situated at the point of perfection, both quantitatively as well as qualitatively. The intellect of no wise man can alight upon a religious verity that has been left out of them, nor is there any doubt of a follower of falsehood that has not been dispelled in this Word. To expound all of these truths and sublime veri- ties, which nevertheless fully conform with the true needs, and to do so with such unsurpassable excel- lence of eloquence and elegance, is indeed a grand task—evidently beyond the reach of human capacity. But man is so inept that if he wants to describe even the insignificant and trivial affairs—that have noth- ing to do with sublime truths—in an elegant and elo- quent composition, with strict regard to truthfulness