The truest of words is the Book of God, and the way of salvation is the
one shown by our lord Muhammad (p.b.u.h.). The worst of deeds is
innovation which causes deviation that ends with the fire of hell.” Thus
spoke ‘Abd Allah ibn Mas’ud (May God be pleased with him) to his
companion peers and to his pupils and followers, describing the signs of
the ways of religion. When he spoke of knowledge, he meant the highest
goal, which has been sought by religious scholars and seekers of truth
in discovering the truth alone and avoiding deviation and wrong words.
He said: Attainment of truth is not possible except through two
fundamental principles of the noble religion of Islam, namely the Book
of God and the utterances of His prophet, the former being the highest
and noblest truth ever uttered in the past and present, which cannot be
excelled in future, and whose validity will never be diminished. Why
should it not be so? The reason is that it has descended from God
Almighty, and mankind has confessed his own weakness and inability
before the eloquence of its phrases and its brilliant truth. It is the
most decisive evidence for the prophet hood of Muhammad. Next are the
utterances of an untaught and unlettered Prophet, an exalted personality
through whom the heavenly Book has been communicated to the people all
over the world; a person who has not offered anything on his own behalf,
nor has he added anything on his own behalf, nor has he added anything
of his own, nor given
any instructions except for the inspirations received from the source of divine revelation.
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