How humanity received Guidance from the God’?

By Dr. P.R. Palodhi

This world of Humans has come after a process of unification between the facets of two primal creations: Jinns (created from fire) and Adam (created from clay)? Hence, final Revelation in Qur’an is found to address both Jinns and Humans (Insaan). The journey of Humans proceeds on earth via clash and co-existence, rise and fall of different civilizations and syntheses and integrations of divaricated cultures. In this episode God has granted a period of freedom for civilizations to flourish with various human choices, but alongside the ‘Tradition of God’ rests abidingly with Prophetic heritage so that every generation vis-à-vis willing person may have the access to God’s Message for mankind. In the newer world after Flood, God’s Revelations came in recurrent cycles of Revelation in Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam. These are found to born incommunicado, un-noticed by the enthralled civilization; and the golden rules have become universal with lasting impact on the humanity. But we find that there are about 2,500 various to and fro religious beliefs in our day world – most of which defy the laws revealed by the God. As regard the appearance of such outspread religious differences, God has pointed in the final Revelation that: the wily men (guided by the evil) repeatedly distort the Prophetic teachings, while these interpolations and errors are rectified via repeated cycles of Revelations from God (Qur’an, 22:52); people do not readily accept the recent most Revelation from God out of deep superstition-like affinity to their earlier belief (Q, 38:6-8); and men get divided into factions by creating difference of opinion within themselves, and they are quite satisfied holding their individual opinions (Q, 23:54).

‘Those who split up their religion, and become mere Sects -- each party rejoices in that which is with itself! (Q, 30: 32) ‘Leave them in their confused ignorance for a time’ (Q, 23:53-54).

We know from the final Revelation in Qur’an that: pre-humans (i.e. Jinns in Qur’an) also received

guidance from the God; and after creation of Insaan (humankind) revealed knowledge came via line of patriarchal Prophets initiating from Adam, Seth and Idris. Eventually aberrant progenies of pre-Flood world were devastated by the catastrophic Flood. In post-Flood population, while diverse races of mankind were flourishing outwardly with respective civilizations – the Tradition of God remained inwardly restricted within Prophet Noah’s son Shem (Sam in Arabic) and his descendants; thus successive Revelations came to the Prophets chosen from within among this Semitic lineage. Early post-Flood Prophets are from ancient Arabs; and thereafter came Prophet Abraham – the patriarch of new world’s prophetic generation.

As we look back to the world immediately after Flood, Noah’s contemporary generation was plunged into polytheism and those pagan people considered Prophet as some evil possession of their silly pagan gods (Q, 11:53-54). The Qur’an informed about the ancient Arab Prophets (Q, 11): one is Hud belonging to the Arabian tribe of A’ ad, and the other is Salih of the tribe of Thamud – who were near descendants of Noah after the Flood. Amidst rampant paganism, deep down a reshaping of a newer world began especially after arrival of Prophet Abraham; and then religious authority was handed down through his descendants from Sarah, Hagar and Keturah (the three wives of Abraham). Prophets like Ishmael and Adnan (descendants of Hagar) came within the pre-existing Arab community formed by the ‘ancient’ and the ‘descendants of Keturah’. The Qur’an refers (Q, 11) to the sons of Keturah when it mentions Prophet Shu’eyb of Midian (identified with Jethro). If Shu’eyb is indeed Jethro, the Qur’an is explaining further the transfer of authority of the Scriptures to Israel through Moses and Aaron (descendants of Sarah); and the tribe of Midian was used for activating that process through Moses’ sojourn in Midian and the preparation for the Exodus. Both Surahs (Q, 10: 76 & 11: 96) inform that it is only after ancient pagans denied to obeying God and His Prophets like Hud, Salih and Shu’eyb - God transferred the authority on Moses and Aaron. At this point, Arabs were crossed between paganized Arabs and Christianized Arabs. Religious guidance for humankind that began with Adam, recycled in every age and stage of mankind through succession of innumerable Prophets – finally culminated in the Revelation to Prophet Muhammad in Arabic Qur’an. From Revelations we come to know that, intervention of God has been gradually reducing during the course of anthropic period proceeding from birth, childhood and adulthood of mankind.

Prophetic inspiration that initiated with Adam had been stopped after the death of Prophet Muhammad; and it will resume again with the second coming of Prophet Jesus (Q, 43: 61; also see Hadith no 425, vol. III: Al-Bukhari). A very significant and intriguing mention has come in the Qur’an in particular speaking of the end times when Midian was again referred to (unto Midian We sent Shu’eyb, their brother) – before who were ‘removed from sight’ (Q, 11: 94-95). ‘And look forward to the Last Day, and do not evil, making mischief, in the earth.’ (Q, 29:36). Thus successive missions of the Abrahamic Prophets began to orient the newer world. Meanwhile from ancient pictorial mode the alphabetic languages were developing as well; and finally the Prophetic scriptures appear before us in the forms of OT from Moses, Zoroaster’s Gatha, NT after Jesus, and at last came the Qur’an revealed in Arabic to Muhammad. All these are called Abrahamic religions because

they are inherently based upon ‘monotheistic principles’ revealed earlier to the patriarch Abraham. Their scriptures have common guidance to orient tradition in the direction of Abraham’s religion and for prayer facing towards the Ka’Ba of Abraham (but sectarian rivalry prevented them from arriving at a common platform). All of them are found to be revelatory, monotheistic, and Prophetic – and with same grounds of religion’s scared ethics, historical orientation, and isolated desert-origin. Thus from the chosen Prophets, humanity in every age has received ‘Holy name of God’ and inherently consonant religious messages that tell about Will of the Creator for His creations. Every new Revelation from God has a fulfilling function in relation to the previous one. Thus Judaism and Zoroastrianism are reformations to dwindling Noah’s religion – which was gradually corrupted by Sumero-Egyptian demigods and their closely affiliated proto-Aryans and the pagan factions within among Semites. Afterward came Christianity which is esoteric re-adaptation to decrepit Judaism; and then the Bible was again defiled by the Institutional hegemony of Council decisions. At the end, final Revelation for mankind came in Qur’an by exacting the misrepresentations of the un-named authors who wrote the Bible from age old oral tradition and not directly from the mouth of the Prophet (as it happened in Qur’an). Thus many ambiguities of Bible and other worn out scriptures become explicit and resolved after grasping the sense of exact revealed words from Qur’an. Tawhidic guidance in the Qur’an appears ‘in space’ as a polyvalent pattern embracing all the religions by retracing their essential positions; ‘in time’ it present itself by unifying what has been before it – implying the eternal continuity of God’s Guidance. The final Revelation for mankind came in Arabic when the languages of our new world gradually had assumed the definite alphabetic forms. Arabic preserves virtually all distinctive features of proto-Semitic – like inflection, systematic dual endings, and full consonantal distinctions which have generally been lost or merged in middle Semitic. Thus exegesis is not hampered by linguistic enigmas or obscurantism like that of other previous scriptures. In any other revealed scriptures, we cannot see complete language of Revelation by our own eyes. While the Qur’an with its each single revealed word has remained accessible to every willing eye vis-à-vis the enquiry of succeeding generations. Thus misrepresentations and wild speculations by ‘obscurantism of revealed truths’ so typical of the Jewish, Hindu, and other traditions – certainly are absent in the case of Qur’an. Archetypal ‘Words of God’ in the Qur’an are clearly attested by the self evident Divine authority of its supraliminal scriptural anthology, the Prophetic authenticity, and the universality of ‘revealed truths’ in its essential completeness. The profound universality of last two revealed scriptures, the Bible and the Qur’an, could be fathomed by tracing out the cyclic homogeneity of eternal revealed principles – echoes of which are frequently heard amidst distorted pagan versions of the many ancient religions. Let us have a summarized view of the proceedings of successive revealed guidance that came in recurrent cycles of Abrahamic religions.

BIBLICAL REVELATIONS (of Old Testament) came in a post-Flood world when humanity not yet had attained the present state of anthropological homogeneity; various abnormal progenies (races of giants: Anakim, Rafaim, and Nephilim etc) belonging to pre-Adamite races used live by intermingling with the Adamic races. This ancient world was overwhelmed by the pagan enemies against ‘religion of God’; and God chose Semites (i.e. lineage of Noah’s son Shem) as the flag-bearers of God’s religion. Thus successive Semitic Prophets began to receive inspiration from God for removing anti-God paganism from the world. Hence early Biblical Revelations are found to address primarily to ‘the chosen people of God’ (the Semites like Hebrews and early Jews). Bible (from prolonged collection of ‘revealed knowledge’ in Tanakh [OT] and adaptations from Jesus in NT) provides guidance with respect to: (i) Creation in Six

Days (in terms of God’s time); creations of mankind (that includes pre-Adamic races), then Adam and Eve in blissful Garden, and their fall from heavenly bliss after Satan seduces them. As a result two lines, the seeds of Satan (nachash) and the seeds of Eve have emerged and whom God has cursed to live by enmity with each other. (ii) how human race from Adam co-exist via miscegenation with pre-humans - producing consequently many generation of anti-God people in the out coming humanity; (iii) origin of the patriarchs of pre-Flood world and then post Flood generations from Noah with special emphasis on the Prophetic lineages of the Hebrews (from Heber) and the sons of Israel; (iv) how and when civilization begins and the language of mankind which was ‘one’ eventually becomes confounded into many tongues; (v) genealogy of diverse human races and geographical details of old and newer world; (vi) on going fights between good and evil i.e. detail narratives of successive Hebrew and Israeli Prophets and kings who fought for the cause of God and cleaned up the ancient world from adversaries of God (pagan demigods, giants, strangers and aliens etc) who overwhelmed this earth with the Paganism of false gods, and used to spoil daughters of humans by the charm of adornments, and established the hegemony of anti-God civilizations by their power of endless chariots and steeds of war and monuments of pagan idols; (vii) against all such odds, how God’s promise continues with Hebrews’ religious war against Paganism; (viii) then decay of Jewish pedigree when God’s hand was stretched out still; (ix) future prophesies regarding how God will intervene again to punish evil and feed the terrible oppressors with their own flesh and blood; (x) the last days of this world when God will redeem and re-establish with judgment – the righteous ones from among people of mixed generations on earth; and (xi) following the heels of Prophet how a blissful life on earth (golden age) shall begin in the humanity’s last age finally bringing an end to this present age of religious darkness.

ZOROASTRIAN GATHA meanwhile highlighted: (i) God’s religion with respect to newly emerged post-Flood generation descending from sage Kasyapa (Brahma’s descendant in Hinduism. Brahma has striking similarity with Abraham in Bible); (ii) a section called themselves as Aryans who were more affiliated to the Paganism and were being drifted more towards the pagan gods called daevas or devas. (iii) To stem this rot Prophet Zoroaster was raised from sage Kasyapa’s (Persian: Kasapa) lineage; who arrived with God’s Message in the name of Supreme God as Ahura (in Vedic tongue Asura). As a result, long religious conflict began between Avestan Persian and Vedic Aryan, whereby the old Aryan religion was separated simultaneously into Mazdaism by the followers of Supreme God, and Vedism by followers of devas (pagan gods). Eventually God believing Zoroastrians were mostly converted into Islam; this however, caused lapses in preservation of archaic Avestan literatures, and we became more dependent on Indic Vedas to know about the early Indo-Aryans. Tradition of Vedas exists now by exposing the Paganism of deva-centric Indo-Aryans in present Hinduism which virtually rejects Prophets and monotheistic principles of successive Abrahamic religions.

QUR’AN & HADITH: God’s Revelation to Prophets of humanity culminated in the Qur’an (6 th century AD) – when the humankind finally attained more constancy in terms unification between pre-Adamic and Adamic races. Now the line of distinction between Adamic and pre-Adamic, or Semitic and non-Semitic etc have greatly been faded away. The prime distinguishable religious feature of present humanity remains to be the Believers (of God’s Revelation) and the Non-believers. Hence in Qur’an, Almighty God no more addresses to the Semites (as He did before in Biblical Revelations) but to all those ‘who submit to God’s Will’ i.e. Muslims (in Arabic). Irrespective of caste, creed and custom now anybody can know God’s Will by reading Qur’an, and chooses whether to follow God’s Path and becomes a Believer; or a self-willed path of religion and becomes virtually a Disbeliever of God’s final Revelation. The tradition of Qur’an (via immutable words of God (wahy matlu) to chosen Prophet of God, and received wisdom (wahy ghayr matlu in Hadith that came in response to Prophet’s prayer to God) exists as the most authentic ‘axes of revealed guidance’ conveying the conclusive Will of God in the final age of mankind. This final scripture enlightens the believers by revealing: (i) Six Days creation where every entity exists by submitting their ‘will’ to God – excepting the pre-human (named as Jinns) and the humans (named as Insaan); (ii) God created three different kinds of ‘beings having self-will’; firstly the Angels from light, then pre-human Jinns from fire, and at last humanity’s first Prophet Adam from clay and thereafter a new earthy and earthly race of Human (Insaan) at the end. Angels act only according to God’s Will, but Jinns and humans have been granted a period of freedom of conduct in this earth; (iii) how Satan origins from among the Jinn-kind to defy God’s Will for creation of earthy humans; how Satan spoils Adam’s

generation, and God dispels them from blissful Garden and curses these spoiled generations to live on earth with enmity to each other. (iv) before casting Satan to hell-fire, God grants him a period of freedom till the Day of Judgement, and allows his Jinn tribe to share wealth and children with Adamites in order to judge between the races of humankind issuing from intermixing of Jinns and Adamites; (v) how the hands of Satan continue to mislead the people on earth; (vi) eradication of untoward generations by Flood, and then post-Flood Prophetic lineage originating from Noah’s lineage (highlighting their names); (vii) narratives of the righteous followers of Prophets and the fate of wrong doers of the bygone past; (viii) Divine Trial of mankind between the opposites of ‘good’ and ‘evil’; very purpose of living in this world and guidance about how to follow the straight path of God; (ix) second coming of Prophet Jesus in the final days before dissolution of this earth; (x) resurrection of each human soul, the Day of Judgment for reward and punishment in the Hereafter. And (xi) Hadith gives pertinent knowledge about how to orient one’s life according to the guidance of God; and the wisdom which Prophet received from God with respect to various pre-mental heavenly truths including questions on Hereafter and the blissful life in Paradise.

Divine Inspiration which had stopped after the death of Prophet Muhammad shall resume again at the time of descent (i.e. second coming) of Prophet Jesus who will rule according to Islamic Law during the last days of the world (see also Hadith no 425. vol. III - Al-Bukhari). Overwhelming all inflated ‘falsehoods’, again from the ‘spring of water of life’ (Kasava) shall appear miracle par excellence with Kausar i.e. which is ‘mine of truth’ and orient humanity towards the ‘Will of God’.

‘And Jesus shall be a Sign for the coming of the Hour of Judgment: therefore have no doubt about the Hour, but follow Me: this is a Straight Way.’ (Q, 43: 61)

We again come to know from the prophet Zephaniah about the state of religion at the time of re-establishment of Primordial Tradition (return of Krita age) by the Messiah (or Kalki Avatar): ‘For then will I (God) turn to the people a pure language that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one consent’ (Zeph. 9: iii). Vishnu Purana mentions about Kalki Avatar (4. 24): ‘He will then re-establish righteousness upon earth; and the minds of those who live at the end of Kali age shall be awakened, and shall be as pellucid as crystal. The men who are thus charged by virtue of that peculiar time shall be as the seeds of human beings, and shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of Krita age, the age of purity. As it is said, “when the sun and the moon, and the lunar asterism Tishya, and the planet Jupiter, are in one mansion, the Krita age shall return.’

Revelation and the role of Scripture bearers

The Qur’an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (13 BH – AH 11 / 610-32 AD) in a world when Jews and Christians of Europe were living in a dark age with decrepit monotheism. Development of scientific reason i.e. burhan (proof based on evidence) had to wait Revelation and application of the Qur’an. God reveals to man only the ‘root ideas’ – but the grasp of such vertical wisdom demands seeker’s constant striving for Truth by their horizontal mode of investigation. Hence in order to spur the believers’ penchant for Truth Qur’an guides: “read scripture (iqra)”, “see (yaraw)”, “travel (fa-siiruu)” and “observe (fa-anzuru)”. Within about hundred years (800 AD) early Muslims had traveled from Arabia to different parts of the world and kindled the novel ideas in science and learning; and they achieved world ‘intellectual supremacy’ which continued for about 500-600 years. They established educational centers and the Europeans learned much from these early Muslims. After Crusades the Christian Europe awoke and eventually turned out to be the leader of present materialistic civilization where the new role of Europe began to stand against Islam. Islam being the culminating epilogue of Prophetic religions before dissolution of earth - has begun to spread universally as the fastest growing religion on earth. Over 1400 years have past now since birth of Islam; but it is quite evident that present Muslims show clear signs of lapses and sit now just opposite to vitality of early Muslims’ sacred brilliance. And modern Christianity is no more heedful to God, instead is disposed to the paganized Christian brilliance. Thus the last two people of Book (Christians and Muslims) have sundered their Tawhidic religion by Takhsis (reductionism) and Tahrif (deviation); and both are drifting away from holistic Truth. Such spell of religious darkness

within God’s tradition can not usurp unless Satan and his hands gain ascendancy in the very name of God, and are able to hoodwink believers by steering them from within.

CHRISTIANITY: Men without religion / ISLAM: Religion without men

It is a serious notice for any earnest believer of Islam, when above remark comes from Dr. Al-Hilali (Professor Islamic University, Medina) 1 who also points that: ‘a Muslim never lacks proofs about the purity and truthfulness of his religion, but what he lacks is the truthful brothers who stand for Allah testifying to the Truth’. Indeed, in this age, Islam is a religion without men who can appropriately utilize Qur’an’s rational-ethical holistic knowledge for the cause of true Islam. And Christianity is men without religion, yet by their endeavour, adventurous spirits, patience and worldly power they are able to falsify truth and make falsehoods appear true.

(i) ‘Obedience’ without ‘knowledge’ is Takhsis, and not Tawhid: Believer’s ‘obedience’ to God is lifeless unless there is constant ‘yearning for Truth’. Dr. Husaini (p. 21) 2

pointed that: in recent centuries, by turning their backs on observable and knowable signs Muslims

became like those ‘blinded people of civilization’ (qawmun ‘amin, Q, 7:64), deaf, dumb, and blind without

any rational knowledge (Q, 2:171). Religious leadership has uphill task in orienting the ‘last scripture

bearers’ especially because the Guidance of Qur’anic Revelation has twofold dimensions: ‘spiritual’ and

‘rational’. Qur’anic unitary or holistic (Tawhid) knowledge (‘ilm) has a ‘rational’ (‘aqaliyyah) part knowable

by all human beings since God has made them accessible through ‘rational reasoning’. The other part of

‘ilm is value oriented or ideological; it is based on a tradition (any shari’ah) that may be a religion or a

secular belief system. The integration or unification of these two parts is Tawhid (see Husaini, p. 33); and

such integration demands profundity of holistic understanding both vertically and horizontally. Here any

short cut or ‘reductionism’ is derogatory because seeker’s vision should not close within ‘words of the

Book’, it must extend to view the polyvalent symbolism in Revelation (ta’wil), its aftermath in the human

history in terms of linguistics, science, sociology and comparative religions etc. The Huffaz preserve

Qur’an in memory, but role of Mufassir and teachers is to serve the cause of ‘ilm that God has made

accessible through natural reason in order to remove the snags of spiritual awareness. Here every step

demands precaution that ‘the word of God’ is not manipulated to fulfill one’s self-will; personal interests

have no room in Tafsîr (‘to make clear’). In this context, one must not confuse ‘sacred wisdom’ with

profane religiose flairs; the former arouses in believers the inner calls of holistic Truth, but the later

invest knowledge to attract and absorb lesser minds by the pulls of sentimental grounds. Unaware

believers tend to count any brilliance as ‘gold’ that exalts in the very name of God and glitters by overly

iterating the scripture. Inordinate inclinations for personality cult and bigot sectarianism lead to passive

Shirk. Prophet Muhammad has said: “Shirk in Muslim nation is more inconspicuous than the creeping of

the black ant on a black rock in the pitch darkness of the night” (Al-Bukhari, Introduction page. L, op.cit).

History tells us how the many past traditions have been categorically atrophied by the crafty and solicitous

masters who exalt at cost of wanting believers – without exacting the seeker’s sense of responsibility,

commitment, and penchant for Truth.

In the state of decline, God commanded believers (in Surah Al-‘asr) to join together in mutual enjoining of Truth (tawaasaw bil-Haqqi) along with good deeds, patience and constancy (Q, 103:3). In search of religious vision, if the light of Qur’an, in stead of looking through the darkness, is turned back toward own eyes – it only leads to blindness. Divine Light (Missal) comes in essence not for the sake of shining a person or an Institution – but to show the path of Real and remove the snags of Unreal. The Tawhidic sense of the word ‘Muslim’ in Qur’an goes astray for those followers who revolve more around the ‘bigot

sectarianism’ rather than evolving in terms of ‘purification of Soul’ (see Q, 87: 14-15). If ritualism alone was enough to purify then God would not have warned the ardently ritualistic Jews (once chosen people) for their persistent wrong doings: ‘Your new moons and your appointed feasts My Soul hateth: they are a trouble unto Me….when ye make many prayers, I will not hear…’ (Isa, 1: 14-15)

As regard lapses of present Muslims, the most relevant words of wisdom came from Imam al-Ghazali - the greatest of the Islamic scholars of all times and one of the most influential intellectuals in the history of mankind – who profoundly influenced the Christian scholastics, but it was not so in the case of his succeeding Muslims. ‘Within forty years of his death (1111 AD), most of his books had been translated into Latin…His ideas were transmitted to generations of Europeans who studied them in new universities of Europe patterned on Muslim models; and this initiated the renaissance of Europe and the reformation of Christianity’ (Husaini, p. 35, op.cit). Imam al-Ghazali reminded about a thousand years ago that most of the Muslims are not holistic or Tawhidic Muslim; they are reductionist Muslim (Takhsisiyyun). They have restricted Qur’an and Islam to the “five pillars”, personal morality etc and excluded from them Islamic natural sciences, technology, and economics etc. Thus tradition gets categorically depleted of the vitality of ‘ilm. Every valid discipline, vocation, or science is an ‘ilm which has its origin in the Qur’an in a general or in a specific sense. The sciences which are knowable are based upon man’s natural reason (‘aql) and experience; and are called natural or rational (tabi’iyyah, ‘aqaliyyah) sciences. Hence God commanded (Q, 29:19) believers to ‘see’ ‘observe’ and ‘travel’; thus constant striving for knowledge and application of all discipline is an Islamic duty (Fard) and necessity. Dr. Husaini informs: ‘in his book (Kitab al-‘ilm, i.e. Book of knowledge) Imam Ghazali has pointed that reductionism (takhsis) is the one major cause that deviated (tahrif) Muslims from the true knowledge of Qur’an. For example, the word fiqh in Qur’an means understanding, a science, and any or all knowledge in the holistic sense. But fiqh was reduced to mean only Islamic law; and gradually Islamic fiqh or knowledge was confined to only Islamic personal law’.

‘Ulûm al-Qur’an’ – the Sciences of the Qur’an, is not a new field of study; it began in the very lifetime of Prophet Muhammad which included all aspects related to understanding of the Qur’an. But the later Muslims excluded the duty of ‘holistic truth seeking’ and banked more upon a ritualistic platform; this may have helped them to expand, but only in horizontal sense and not in terms of vertical depth. Thus present Muslims so easily succumb to worldly pleasure and its glitters. Prophet Muhammad

has narrated to his companion Sasban (R.A) in Hadith 3 that Muslims with the passage of time shall spread all over, and then they will suffer loss of spiritual vitality due to their leaning for worldly lust and fear for death. Another Hadith mentioned that they will gradually turn into the likes of decrepit Ummat of Jews and Christians. A time will come when Islam would be capsized as a pot is capsized with all its contents. Allah protects believers but does not spare them from being put on trial: “Verily in this are Signs and We put men to test" (Q, 23: 30). From guidance of Qur’an it is conceivable that to prevent such decline, tradition demands believer’s constant striving for Truth by shaking off the desires of worldly gains, pleasures, pomp and glitters that Allah has granted for temporal enjoyment of the ‘sinners’ rather than His true believers (see Q, 11: 15-16; 20: 131). Transcending the apparent lapses, Islam shall reign

supreme again following the second wave of Muhammadis 4. Present Scripture bearers have a call up lesson in the Qur’anic Revelation when it forewarns those spoiled people of the past Scripture bearers – who were abandoned because their wrong doings, yet they went on hoping for too long while their allotted terms had expired.

‘O ye who believe! if any from among you turn back from faith, soon will God produce a people whom He will love as they will love Him, (these people) humble towards believers, stern towards disbelievers, striving in the way of God, and fearing not the blame of any blamer. Such is the grace of God which He giveth unto whom He will.’ (Q, 5: 54); ‘because God will never change the Grace which He hath bestowed on a people until they change what is in their own souls: and verily God is He Who heareth and knoweth all things.’ (Q, 8: 53)

‘The likeness of those who are entrusted with the Law of Moses, yet apply it not, is as the likeness of the ass carrying books. Wretched is the likeness of folk who deny Revelations of God: and God guides not people who do wrong.’ (Q, 62: 5)

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(ii) ‘Knowledge’ without ‘obedience’ is Takhsis, and not Tawhid:Without obedience God never guides man; and in absence of obedience man’s yearning for Truth continues to wander in the vagueness until it turns lame. Defying Qur’an since 19th century Christian Scholars are especially trying to patronize ‘realm of theology’ exclusively within Bible. Judeo-Christian history revealed how these people of past scriptures had been categorically atrophied by the spells of many ‘master minds’ of the religion. At present there are signs of revivals within Christian world especially after realizing how the present Bible versions mislead Christianity from the implied senses of the original Hebrew words. In this effort of truth-seeking, if their cherishes of ‘self-will’ become more important than the ‘Will of God’ – then all their painstaking works will add another dimension to religious deviations via reductionism with which the early quasi-pagan usurpers of Christianity have already inflicted enough damage to their religion. As regard Christian revival, the question is: does God approve reductionism (takhsis) in exegesis (i.e. loud with Bible’s message by denying Qur’an or vice versa; in other word, heedful about ‘penultimate Revelation’ but heedless about the ‘ultimate one’!). Different orthodoxies like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam etc came form God because: whenever the religious vitality of a tradition depletes, God restores it again by creating a newer orthodoxy. After Judeo-Christianity drifted categorically from the sacred Oneness of God, the Qur’an came to restore the religion of God in a world different from that of the Biblical times - and it is the last Revelation before dissolution of the earth. Any effort to gravitate towards God demands attention to God’s final Message in Qur’an. Now if a section tries to find its ‘identity’ via mode of bigot reductionism – it only breaches the universal Oneness of God (Tawhid), rather than it reaches to Yah-El/Yahweh-Elohim/Allah.

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