Introducing Islam a Simple Introduction to Islam
A Danger Warning
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All such solutions to the problems of life differ from
one another considerably but in so much as none of
them raises any serious personal issue for man, they
are all the same. They are either explanations of
events or a means of providing us with some sort of
spiritual satisfaction. They do not issue us with any
warning or stir us into any action.
But the answer provided by the Prophet
Muhammad is of an entirely different nature.
Whereas the other answers do not raise any critical
issue for man, the answer provided by the Prophet
places every individual in a precarious position
from which the next step leads either to an
awesome abyss of destruction or to a world of
eternal bliss. It requires every man to take a serious
view of his situation—even more so than a traveller
in the night whose torch reveals a black snake
slithering menacingly in front of him.
The message taught by Muhammad, may God’s
peace and blessings be upon him, contains a greater
warning for all mankind. He taught that after this
world a vaster world is awaiting us, where every
person will be judged and then punished or
