The Guiding Light — Page 102
S u rah at-T i n, Chapter 95 102 that of Noah as ”, “Mount Sinai”’ that of Moses as and “this City of Security” the Islamic epoch. This explanation finds ample support from the Bible and the Qur’ a n. When Adam as and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and found themselves naked, they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons (Gen. 3:7). About Noah as we read: “And the dove came into him in the evening; and lo! In her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off; so Noah as knew that the waters were abated from off the earth” (Gen 8:11). And it is an accepted fact that Moses as received the Divine Law on Mount Sinai and that Makkah, the birthplace of Islam was, from time immemorial, regarded as, and proved to be, the “City of Security”. These four periods represent the four cycles through which man had to pass to reach the stage of complete development. In the cycle of Adam as the foundations of human civilisation were laid. Noah as was the founder of the Shar i ‘at. In the cycle of Moses as the details of the Shar i ‘at were revealed, while with the advent of the Holy Prophet sa the Divine Law became complete and perfect in all its manifold aspects, and man attained his complete intellectual, social, moral and spiritual development.