ENHANCEMENT OF CODIFICATION
The approach to the enhancement of codification is to be based on the Meccan verses, which appeared intolerable to the people then. As we have said, people were naive as these verses were intended for wise people. Those after-effects of fourteen centuries of development have since prepared people to travel by rocket to the moon. People now have spaceships that are traveling to Mars and Jupiter to explore outer space, and people are exploring the depths of the seas and the depths of the earth. It is the result of some of the knowledge that God teaches to mankind. God teaches the infidel as well as the Moslem. There is no knowledge but that which comes from God, as the verse says: “He taught by the pen. He taught man what he did not know” (96:4-5). He did not only teach the Moslem, rather He taught man! The man who traveled to the moon, God taught him how to invent the spaceship and put it into service. All of this is teaching from God to the people. Yet one aspect of God’s knowledge is worldly, and the other is otherworldly. People who know God are those who consider the world as a means to travel to God―they are always looking forward. While the people who do not know God consider the world as their only home. They keep building upon it to dwell in it, as if they have no other place. These two types of people do exist, and the source of their two types of knowledge is a single teacher—which is God. However, God wants people to go through this world to the otherworld. The Prophet said: “This world is a mount to the otherworld.” This world, including all its boons and amenities, is our mount, or vehicle, or aircraft by which we go to the otherworld. Just as we travel to Egypt in an aircraft, which is our mount to Egypt, the whole world, including its amenities, is our mount to the otherworld. That is the proper religious outlook.
People who know the place of this world in relationship to the otherworld are those who know God. Religion has come for them, so that they in turn have to spread, and teach it to others. Instead of stopping at the levels where they are, they have to proceed forward, as they will have ample energy and cover a very large sphere of action. Religion has come to the Moslems so that they can carry it, for example, to the Russians and the Americans who went to the moon and to various other places. The Moslems’ message to them should be that the moon is not so important, what’s most important is to get to the Lord and not to the moon. What is special about the moon? It is nothing but a dead rock thrown into outer space. You have to go to the Lord of the moon, not just to the moon. Moslems are the only ones who are able to preach these words, because these words are in the Quran. So, if we do not understand the Quran precisely, we will not be able to educate ourselves, and we will not be able to educate others. Here comes the importance of the Second Message of Islam.
