Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 153
POSTSCRIPT RESPONSE TO SOME CRITICS' OBJECTIONS 9. Allah the Exalted says: إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَكْفُرُونَ بِاللهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَيُرِيدُونَ أَن يُفَرِّقُوا بَيْنَ اللهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَيَقُولُونَ نُؤْمِنُ بِبَعْضٍ وَنَكْفُرُ بِبَعْضٍ وَيُرِيدُونَ أَن يَتَّخِذُوا بَيْنَ ذلِكَ سَبِيلًا. أوليكَ هُمُ الْكَفِرُونَ حَقًّا وَ أَعْتَدْنَا لِلْكَفِرِينَ عَذَابًا مُّهِينَا. وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَلَمْ يُفَرِّقُوا بَيْنَ أَحَدٍ مِنْهُمْ أُولَبِكَ سَوْفَ يُؤْتِيهِمُ أَجُورَهُمْ - 153 1(Part Number 6, Surah an-Nisa') (Translation): Those people who reject Allah and the Messenger and seek to create a divide between God and His Messengers, saying, 'We believe in some and not in others'-in other words, belief in God alone or belief in some Messengers is enough and it is unnecessary to believe in the Messengers or all the Prophets in conjunction with the belief in God and they seek to discard divine guidance, adopting an incomplete religion instead; such indeed are confirmed disbelievers, and We have prepared a humiliating punishment for the disbelievers. And those who believe in God and the Messenger, and do not create discord between God and His Messengers—that is, do not adopt this divisive belief in God alone and not His Messengers, nor do they like the schism of believing in some of the Prophets while rejecting oth- ers-God shall give such people their reward. Now where is Miyań ‘Abdul-Hakim Khān, the apostate, who was estranged from me on account of such writing of mine? It would be better for him to ponder with an open mind how God has linked belief in His existence to belief in His Messengers. The secret underlying this is that man has been invested with the capacity of believing in Tauḥīd in the way that fire is latent within a stone. The person of a Messenger is like a flint who strikes the stone by focussing his attention upon it and brings out that latent fire in the stone. It is not possible, therefore, that without the flint of a Prophet, the spark of Tauḥid may be ignited in any heart. It is only a Prophet who brings down Tauḥīd upon the earth 1. Surah an-Nisa', 4:151–153 [Publisher]