The Twentieth Word

The Twentieth Word

[This Word consists of two stations]

First Station

First Station

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

And when We told the angels: Prostrate before Adam, they prostrated, except Iblis.(2:34) ∗ God commands that you sacrifice a cow.(2:67) ∗ And yet after all this your hearts hardened and became like rocks or even harder.(2:74)

One day while reading these verses, three points were imparted to me from the effulgence of the Qur’an against the promptings of Satan. His suggestions took this form:

He said: “You say the Qur’an is a miracle and of infinite eloquence and that it is guidance for everyone at all times. So what is the meaning in its persistently repeating in historical form such minor events as the following: how is it appropriate to mention an insignificant event like the slaughtering of a cow as though it were something significant, and even naming the important sura in which it is found, The Cow? Also the event of ‘prostrating before Adam;’ it occurred in the realm of the Unseen and cannot be understood rationally. It may be submitted to and accepted with certainty only after one has attained a strong belief. Whereas the Qur’an instructs those who use their ability to think; in many places it says: “Do they never think?”(36:68) and refers what it says to the reason. Also, how is it guidance to show certain natural conditions of rocks to be important although they result from chance?”

The points with which I was inspired took this form:

First Point

FIRST POINT: The All-Wise Qur’an relates numerous minor events behind which are concealed universal principles, and which are shown as the tips of general laws. For example,

He taught Adam the Names, all of them.(2:31)