The Call of the Quran
1. Divine Planning
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tears from awe and fear of God. He is elevated to
the plan of
ihsan,
a state of worship in which man
feels as if he is seeing the Almighty. There is a
hadith to this effect, asking the believers to worship
God as if they were actually seeing Him.
REVIVAL OF ISLAM IN THE MODERN AGE
In modern times the history of human belief has
once again reached almost the point that it was at
fifteen hundred years ago. In ancient times
shirk
so
dominated human thought that it became an
inseparable part of the historical process, leading to
a situation where every child born was an idolater.
Now, by a process spanning the last several
hundred years, atheistic thoughts have come to
vitiate human thinking. In all intellectual activities
atheistic thinking has so prevailed that once again
in human history atheism has set in as a historical
process. Now every child born in any part of the
world is under its influence. Atheism is the
dominant “religion” of today. Hence the revival of
Islam in modern times will not be possible so long
as atheism continues to enjoy its ideological
dominance.
