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36 perfect code, and yet man is always in need of attaining to the realization of God. There can, therefore, be no new law, but the door of such prophethood as is attained by spiritual perfection is open and should remain open for all time, for God is as much our Providence as He was of our ancestors. The Promised Messiah was, however careful to explain and laid emphasis on the fact, that the doctrine that the Quran was the last and perfect code of revealed laws, did not involve the consequence that man had reached the last stage of intellectual progress and could travel no further, for the human mind ever continues to advance along the path of progress; both in this world and in the next. On the contrary, he pointed out that the more perfect a book is the more it ought to help in the advancement of learning. With respect to the contents of a re- vealed book, he put forward this wonderful test, which has re- volutionized the attitude of all seekers after truth towards re- vealed books that the Word of God should be like the Work of God, and that as the latter is a treasure-house of unlimited secrets which mankind has not been able wholly to discover from the creation of the universe up to the present day, so the Word of God ought to be a treasure-house of inexhaustible learning and wisdom, for if they were to be exhausted one would be com- pelled to admit that God invested the material universe, which has to do with a limited portion of man’s life, with inexhaustible treasures, but so limited the spiritual Universe that is to say, His Perfect Book, that its treasures were soon exhausted. This, however, is not so. The Quran contains treasures more numerous than those of the material universe, and these are laid open be- fore all those who seek sincerely for them. Most people would derive intellectual pleasure from the contemplation of this new principle which thus widens the horizon of intellect to an un- limited degree, but I have put it to a practical test. The benefit which I have derived from the application of this principle to the study of the Quran fills me with an intoxicating joy. When I