Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
7. The Revolution of the Prophet
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Exaltation of the word of God is something more
than this. It means religious thought assuming
ascendancy over all other systems of thought. The
word of God does not become exalted on earth by
any legislative or political programme; it can only
come from a struggle on an intellectual level. It is
when truth is engraved in people’s minds that the
word of God becomes truly exalted, not when it is
written in statute books. In this day and age
modern knowledge has stolen the limelight from
ancient forms of knowledge: empirical science has
taken over from analogical philosophy as the
dominant mode of thought; socialism is a more
prominent intellectual force than capitalism;
democracy is a more forceful political theory than
monarchy. These are all examples of conceptual
ascendancy, the dominance of one system of
thought over another. It is this nature of conceptual
ascendancy of truth over falsehood that must be
achieved for the word of God to become exalted.
God is able to do all things. It would have been
easy for Him to make truth lord over all else, just
as He has made the sun supreme over all other
forms of light. But, since we are being tested in
