Malfuzat – Volume X — Page 512
Malfuzat - English translation of Urdu Volume 10 512 True Comfort is Tied to Religion Alone I have observed that there are also many in this day and age who consider religion to be fanaticism and they do not hold any respect for it in their hearts. They claim that the dwellers of Arabia were savages and illiterate—that the Quran was sent down at that time apropos for their needs. Now the world has advanced and this is the age of enlightenment. Now religion needs to be amended to suit the present times. But let it be known that religion is not some absurdity. Quite the contrary, real comfort of the world and salvation in the Hereafter are bound up with this religion alone. Those unlettered people of Arabia who were the sincere servants of this religion—their being unlettered was itself a miracle in that these same unlettered people, after coming under the sway of Quranic teachings, worked such wonders that claimants of great scholarship were utterly unable to com- pete against them. Comparison of the Pious Teachings of the Holy Quran with the Bible God knew full well what new fields of knowledge would emerge in this age, and people with what kinds of opinions would come into being among the Muslims. Allah the Exalted has already addressed all these issues in the Quran and there is no new research or advance in knowledge that can outstrip the Holy Quran. And there is no new truth that has emerged now but is already present in the Holy Quran. The course that the Holy Quran has presented is not found in the New Testament nor can it be discovered in the Torah. There is also no other book in the world that can lay claim to the