Real Revolution — Page 89
89 point being dependent on a correct knowledge of the attributes. . The door leading to an understanding of these attributes was thus opened on Moses, and he was given a vast knowledge in this field. Those who have studied the Book of Moses with care would appreciate that the divine attributes explained by him practically amount to a sum total of those explained by the Holy Quran. Once I gave much thought to this question; but, at the time at any rate, I failed to find any divine attribute mentioned in the Holy Quran which was not mentioned in the. Torah. The attributes of Rab, Rahman, Raheem,. Malik-i-yaumiddeen, and some others, are the attributes mentioned by Islam, and these same are the ones which have been mentioned by Moses. In short, the intellectual grasp of man had now risen to a stage where he could realise that divine attributes worked like the various departments of an ordered, properly functioning government, and with Moses an outline knowledge of these attributes changed to a richness of detail, opening the door to a better relationship between man and God, and between man and man, this being the reason why after Moses there came a long chain of Prophets all owing allegiance to the Law brought by him though Prophethood was received by them directly from God. . In other words, when man rose to an appreciation