Hundred Questions - The Book

The Book

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Q77 It is certain that God is one, but please explain how His religion and book are also one.

A77

When you have accepted the reality that God is one, it is also certain that His religion and Book also have to be one. For His habit or tradition or law is one and the same thing. Religion is another name for His Divine Law. This is also the case with the heavenly Book, because it is the spiritual and written form of the true religion. Therefore, it is not separate from His one religion.
It is mentioned in the Qur'an everywhere that the heavenly Book, in its origin, is one. Similarly, the religion of nature – Islam – is also one from the beginning to the end and the Prophets and Imams are also one as a Single Soul.
It is said in the Qur'an: "(In the beginning) all people were one community, then God sent (unto them) Prophets as the bearers of good tidings and as warners, and revealed therewith the Book with the truth that it might judge between humankind concerning that wherein they differed (2:213)". Seen in the light of this verse it becomes clear that although apparently there are many heavenly books, but in its origin there is only one book, which is in different forms in different languages. With respect to the exoteric (tanzil) and esoteric (ta'wil) the same one book is common among all Prophets and Imams. It is quite clear that when the book of God, in reality, is one, and the goal of all the Prophets and Imams is one, the true religion too is also one, from the beginning to the end.