Therefore...

Therefore, as we mentioned - in the ways of the philosophers, which person is better at understanding the meanings of his teacher? It is that person who goes the furthest back (to his teacher). However in the school of the Prophets and the intimate friends of Allah (s.w.t.), who would be better apt to understanding the meanings and words of these noble personalities?

It is those people who come in the future and possess more knowledge and understanding and this is one of the miracles of prophethood. In a hadith which is found in the section on Tawhid, it is mentioned that since Allah (s.w.t.) knew that in the end of time, people would come forth who would go deep in thought and delve deep in deliberation on a subject, He revealed Suratul Ikhlas and the first few verses of Suratul Hadid which include the greatest and most precise issues in relation to Tawhid.

By this we mean that the people at the time of the Prophet (S) were not worthy of such verses. However in the future, such people would surely come who would be worthy of receiving these verses of the Qurʾan. These verses are what will provide spiritual nourishment to the people of the future time. Of course since these verses express the final utmost limits of elucidating on the concept of Tawhid, if a person was to rebel and go against these verses, he would definitely be destroyed.

As if there is a difference between the guidance of the youth and the guidance of the older generation?! As if the Salat that the youth perform and the Salat that we the older people perform is different, such that their guidance should also be something different? Just as how in the past we did things, so too we should continue in that same way today.