14 Nov Writings of Hazrat Promised Messiah (as)

Continuing our series of weekly extracts of writings from Hazrat Masih-e-Maud (as) from “Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam”:

…first God desires to teach man the rules of social behavior like sitting, standing, eating, drinking, talking, etc, and thus to deliver him from a state of barbarism and distinguish him from the animals and thus bestow upon him an elementary moral state which might be described as social culture.  He then desires to regulate his elementary moral habits so that they should acquire the character of high moral qualities.  Both these methods are part of the same process as they are related to the reform of man’s natural condition.