Favours of the Gracious God — Page 96
96 that firstly, all such Scriptures have been distorted and changed, and any statement therein that runs counter to the truth and reality is certainly not worthy of cre - dence, because those books are now like offensive dirt, which a pure-natured man should eschew. Even if one were to concede, for the sake of argument, that such words did exist in certain contexts within the Torah, then it is possible for those words to have other mean - ings opposed to the meaning of father, since there is much scope in the definition of words. But even if it is conceded that this word has only one connotation, then the rejoinder could be that since the Israelites and their latter descendants were, in those days, living in a state of decadence and savagery, and they did not compre - hend the pure and perfect meaning carried in the word rabb , therefore, the revelation of God, in accordance to their despicable condition, used those words that they were able to fully comprehend. This is similar to the ex - ample of the Hereafter which does not have a detailed exposition in the Torah—instead, it contains incentives towards worldly comforts and warnings expressed in terms of worldly calamities—because at the time those nations were incapable of understanding a detailed ex - position of the Hereafter. Thus, just as the outcome