Are All Religions Alike? By Parwez - Resurgent Islam

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their obedience MIS also suspended. And when the Book
itself did not remain operational in its original form, the
time of the Messenger of that Book ended too. After the
long succession ofDivine Messengers, the last of the series
of Rusul came. His revealed Book (the Qur'ftn), present in.
its original form, is enforceable up to the Day of
Judgement, the last syllable ofthe time on this earth. Thus,
conviction (Imlin) in Allah and His Messenger (PBUH)
implies acting upon the teachings ofthe Qur'ftn.
Now the conviction (Imlin) in the Messengers prior to the
last Messenger" Hazrat Muliammad (PBUH), and in the
Divine Books befol-e the Qur'au was revealed, means that
they were the true Messengers of Allah on their own time
and their messages were the true Orders of Allah. Now all
these Orders have been included in the shrines of the
Qur'ftn.
In this regard, the Qur'ftn is explicit. It says:
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We bave sent you a Book based on truth.
It validates' and subsumes tbe true
teacblngs of tbe earlier Books (5: 48).
Hence after this new Book, the obedience to the old Books
carries no weight. Every new edition of the code of law
contains new additions in addition to all the matters of the
previous editions that are esSential to keep enforced.
Therefore, the enforceable law is understood to be the one
that is given in the latest edition. More over, after the
Qur'an was revealed, leading life of the various religionists
(Ahl-e-Kitab) according to the dictates of their religions
(given in their religious Scriptures) is wrong in principle.
Now the "Tru!hs" (of their religions, and of those, which