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− (Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship, pp 127-128) The Promised Messiah and Mahdi writes in his famous book, as − 'Kashti-i-Nuh' : − − ± 'The second instrument for guidance vouchsafed to the Muslims is the , i. e. , the measures adopted by the Holy Prophet with a view to Sunnah sa the exposition of the Holy Qur’an and its being put into actual tangible − practice. For instance, looking at the surface only, there appears to be no specification in the Qur’an of in the case of the five daily Rak‘ats − − obligatory Prayers, how many for what Prayer, but the of the Holy Sunnah Prophet has made all these things very clear. No one should fall into error sa that the and are one and the same thing, for what is called Hadith Sunnah ± − the came to be collected a hundred and fifty years afterwards, while Hadith ± − the existed from the very outset side by side with the Holy Sunnah Qur’an. After the Holy Qur’an, the greatest debt of gratitude the Muslims − − owe to anything is to the. ' Sunnah (Our Teaching, Islam International Publications, London, UK, p 27) − The responsibilities towards Allah and the Holy Prophet are sa − hinged on two things: i. Allah revealed the Holy Qur’an informing mankind what − − He expected of them. ii. It was the duty of the Holy Prophet to demonstrate it to sa them by his example. Hence the Holy Prophet transformed into action the spoken Words sa of Allah, and by his simplified the difficult and complicated Sunnah − problems. 178