through the grace of God working in and assisting him, but simply a place wherein he receives a superabundant reward for all he may have been able to do by the assistance of God's grace.

The idea of salvation is thus entirely legalistic. The Abode of Peace is not in any sense within man, but without him. The Kingdom of God is the reward he receives, not the Spirit which fills him. Salvation is not a becoming, but a receiving.

II. THE ATTAINING OF SALVATION

SALVATION is to be attained or worked out by man, but not in independence of God, His will, and His dealings with mankind. The subject, thus, naturally divides itself into two parts, and we shall first consider the teaching of the Qur'an on the way of salvation, looking at it from man's side, and thereafter we shall see what the Qur'an has to say of this way of salvation, looking at it, so to speak, from God's side. The Qur'anic doctrine of salvation will be found in the harmonizing of these two sides of Qur'anic teaching by what may be called a system of give and take, and in the supplementing of each by the other.

The purpose of God to save some precedes the actual working out of man's salvation, but this salvation itself is the result of the co-operation of the divine will with the endeavour of man himself. It is only in so far as man realizes this that he can work out his own salvation, God working in and through him.

Before proceeding further we desire to state that we do not in any way suggest that the order in which we are about to consider the elements or steps in this salvation is, as a matter of actual experience or necessarily, that order in which they must historically be found present in the experience of him who hopes to attain unto salvation.

The first essential which we shall consider is faith. He that cometh to God must believe that He is, and