The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 437
The Holy Qur'ān 437 surge in the attribute of Raḥmāniyyat and heavenly blessings addressed themselves to the earth. That dark condition became blessed for the world and the world thereby received a grand mercy so that the Perfect Man and the Chief of the Prophets, like whom there had been no one, nor ever will be, came for the guidance of the world and brought that bright Book for the world whose match no eye has beheld. It was a great manifestation of spiritual perfection of God that, at a time of gloom and darkness, He sent down a Grand Light which is named the Furgan and which distinguishes between truth and falsehood and which demonstrated the coming of truth and the disappearance of falsehood. It descended upon the earth when the earth had become spiritually dead and land and sea had been greatly corrupted. By its descent it accomplished that to which God Almighty has pointed in the verse: 251 اعْلَمُوا انَّ اللهَ يُحْيِ الْاَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا :. That is to say: The earth had died and God revived it afresh. . It should be remembered that the descent of the Holy. Qur'an which took place for the purpose of reviving the earth came about through the upsurge of the attribute of. Rahmaniyyat. This is the attribute which sometimes manifests itself in a material way and causes the rain of mercy to descend upon dry land and thus makes provision for those who are afflicted with famine. The same attribute sometimes surges up spiritually and has mercy on the condition of those who are hungry and thirsty and near unto death on account of misguidance and error, and 251 al-Hadid, 57:18 [Publisher]