This day is a day wherein God sent the most consummate and perfect being, there is no one more perfect than him, to make His creatures perfect; the man who is initially a feeble creature. He has the capacity to progress and attain the highest grades of perfection. God sent him to give man his due station of progress, to widen his dimensions. Dimensions hidden in man are universal. Islam is to train man in each dimension. Different and various concepts that are formed of Islam are due to the views that the various people hold. There is a great difference. None of these concepts has attained the maturity to recognize or conceive Islam or man or Prophet himself or even the world. All are stagnant to go further. Quite likely, most of the people think that the Prophet and the other Prophets God has sent are to rescue man from tyranny or injustice. This is their duty to exercise justice among the people and the society. That is all. Their job is not beyond this. Most likely some could conjecture in the economical dimension. Prophets came to relieve man from hunger and poverty.
Some might think in a mystical dimension. God sent the Prophets to spread and disseminate the divine knowledge and letters. So they limit the office of the Prophets to this sphere of letters. Likewise, philosophers and jurisprudents might think and confine the duty of the Prophets within their conjecture of philosophy and so forth. So, the believers think in some other ways. The open minded ones think in their own vogue- nations- each in its own taste. All think. All have a thought. But all are short to reach the true point. There is a narration:" He, who conceives his own self, conceives his Lord. This saying makes us understand that man is such a being, if discovered and known, paves way for knowing God. God can be known by knowing the being of man. Such a saying cannot be true in relation other creatures except man. No one can know the Lord of man unless the man himself. Self-knowledge entails knowing about God. This cannot be attained but by the Prophets of God. This should not be thought that Islam has come to manage the world or to make the men advertent to the world hereafter- the next world. Or it has come to acquaint the people with divine literature. To make anything limited goes contrary to the reality. Man has no limit. As such a teacher or a trainer of man too is limitless. The receipt of training that is Qur'an is also without limit. It is not limited to this materialistic world nor is it limited to the unseen world. It is not limited to the world of loneliness. It is all. It is everything.
Sahifeh, vol. 12, Page: 361
Speech, June 12, 1980