A Rejoinder to Pope's Allegations Against Islam — Page 15
THE CONCEPT AB()UT THE SCRIPTU~:S Almighty God sent the scripture through the prophets for the human guidance, and these scriptures were according to the human need and aptitude of mind, and according to the capability of the prophets. So from Adam to this time many prophets appeared and they were given the teachings according to their talent and need. But there was a need of perfect and complete law and commandments for the people, that law did not appear up to the law of Moses, as the Bible itself states; "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they all shall know ]I/Ie, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more. " (JEREMIAH 31:31-34) 15