Fazl-e-Umar — Page 279
Fazle Umar 279 with all other ideologies and religions. It incorporates in itself the best part of their teaching, points to their weaknesses and supplies their deficiencies. In this age when all obscure teachings have come to light it was Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood who took up the challenge and showed what the Qur’an had to teach about them. He returned to this subject again and again. Those who care to follow his writings will not fail to be captivated by the appeal and persuasiveness of the arguments he put forward. Q U R A n IC T E AC H I n G S I n L I n E w I T H H UM A n nAT U R E The commentary of Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] makes it clear that unlike the Bible and other revealed books the Holy Qur’an is a teaching that transcends time and space because its doctrines are related to the human psyche, which is unchangeable. Hence, Islam is a universal religion and the Holy Qur’an is Khatam-al-Kutab , that is, it is the Seal of all Books — it is not a collection of stories. Those who through their own misunderstanding and the practice of hiding the truth, have referred to the Holy Qur’an as a collection of stories, do not possess a nature that is capable of recognis- ing true facts. It is the case that this Holy Book has turned even earlier stories into a philosophy and this is a great service that it has performed for all the Books and all the Prophets otherwise their words would have been laughed at today. It is also a blessing of God that in this age of knowledge when the sciences of the physical world and the study of specific natural qualities of things are advancing, God has established a system for man’s attainment of heavenly knowledge and explanation of its truths. At a time of moral decay and spiritual darkness prophesied by the Holy Prophet [saw] , when these matters did not have any significance greater than ordinary stories that were being mocked in this age of science, God has presented matters in the Holy Qur’an as a means of knowledge in the form of a philosophy. In previous times the idea of heaven and hell was resented as an idea in a very