The Revolution of the Prophet

defence people who fail to follow the truth can offer a lack of awareness; where they have been shown every proof, there remains no pretext for denial. Exaltation of the word of God is something more than this. It means religious thought assumes 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. When the truth is engraved in people’s minds, the word of God becomes genuinely 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. This nature of conceptual ascendancy of truth over falsehood must be achieved for the word of God to become exalted. God can do all things. Therefore, 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 this world, God causes things to happen within the bounds of cause and effect. If events were to occur miraculously, we would have no choice but to see the hand of God in them: there would be no test involved. It was within the bounds of cause and effect that