Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 304
AL-BAYYINAH – A MANIFEST PRINCIPLE. AND AL-QAYYIMAH - AN EVERLASTING TEACHING resistance with no holds barred. When all their baboonish noises and threats fail to intimidate the prophet, the only option they are left with is a desperate recourse to violence. . But it is far beyond their united might to defeat AlBayyinah. Its winning potential lies not merely in the quality of its truth but more than that it lies in the support that God lends it. Al-Bayyinah thus aided by destiny transcends time and space, and always emerges as the dominant principle. To be on the right side of Al-Bayyinah is to survive, to be on the left is to perish. . Al-Bayyinah does not belong to that category of absolute truth which makes the subject of philosophical discussions. Nor is it similar to the emergence of absolute ideas which gradually develop after successfully meeting the challenges of successive eras. The quality of brilliance it displays is lent to it by Divine revelation from its very inception. . The term Al-Bayyinah also comprises other connotations. It works as a motive phenomenon which advances faith and spiritual evolution. It is not inert, but is more like the domineering principle of evolution. All prophetic movements emanate from Al-Bayyinah. The word is derived from an infinitive which has the root meaning of differentiation and discrimination, a meaning it shares with another Quranic term, ‘Al-Bayān'. Al-Bayān () is the faculty of speech which has the power to differentiate between two meanings and to define human thought into clear expressions. It should be noted that like the 'Bayyinah', Al-Bayān () also is described by the. Quran to have a Divine origin as mentioned in the following verse: * خَلَقَ الْإِنْسَانَ * عَلَّمَهُ الْبَيَانَ * 5-55:4 295