Real Revolution — Page 76
76 inculcating certain beliets, which embraced a cértain amount of detail in regard to attributes of the. Divine Being, the human mind having developed to a stage where it could now proceed to grasp these things, and where it had to be warned against addling up the whole plane and plan of his future achievement by setting up equals with the Divine. Being. The discussion of shirk in the Holy Quran begins with the days of Noah, who was the first of the Shari'i (law giving) Prophets, as they are called in Islamic terminology. At this period of human history man had risen to an inkling of the finer spiritual ways; he had become capable of initiating an endeavour to understand things in the metaphysical field. . THIRD ERA: ABRAHAM'S MOVEMENT. The third era was the era of Abraham. Though in regard to Noah it is to be gathered from the Holy. Quran that in his day ideas involving shirk bad star: ted to spring up in the minds of men, and he made a strong effort to eradicate them, but his was essentially an era of the earliest, inception in the human mind of a sense for an understanding of the divine attributes, though the idea of shirk too was only just beginning in a rough and rudimentary form, some having started to worship rude representations of some ancestors or some other simple form of shirk. . By the time of Abraham, however, shirk had begun.