Islam As It Is
Organisation
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in the way of accepting the discipline of such an
organized life, one will remain perpetually
enslaved- by the dictates of one’s own ego, and will
lose the opportunity to develop one’s moral
potential.
Those who believe in God, and subject themselves
to Islamic discipline, can expect to have countless
blessing bestowed upon them. Two of these stand
out from the others in importance. The first enables
a man to become deserving of divine succour, thus
placing him in a position to overcome his
opponents with the help of the Almighty, while the
second saves him from hell-fire in the Afterlife, thus
clearing the way for him to be admitted to the
Gardens of Paradise. These blessings are reserved
for those and those alone who have suppressed the
‘self’ for the sake of God, having bound themselves
to a social order according to which all their
religious and ethical activities are properly
organized.
The greatest strength of any society is its unity, and
what is most damaging to that unity is the relentless
pursuit or personal ambition on the part of its
