Real Revolution — Page 115
115 are told that after a teaching has been revealed the fault often developes that people forget the law, and on that account the teaching becomes useless, although it is there. Even though this involves no defect of the teaching itself, since it is for the people to stick to it carefully or not to do so, the danger of this fault developing in the followers of a teaching is always present. This verse tells us that on such occasions, Islam will not stand in need of help from outside, since the teaching will itself generate a force that will remedy this defect a revivalist force thrown up by some disciple and follower of the Holy. Prophet. . It is of course true that this fault of the people forgetting the teaching occurred in the days of. Moses as well, and was remedied; but the physician to work this cure always came from outside. Reformers were raised under this system who received. Prophethood directly from Allah, though they were of the people of Moses. But the promise has been given to the followers of the Holy Prophet Mohammad that, on a fault developing among them, some one from among his disciples would come forward to set things right. In other words, the teaching itself will, at times of need, throw up reformist and revivalist forces. . Superiority of the Islamic Teaching. On what ground does the Islamic teaching claim