Islam As It Is
Belief in God
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phenomenon, keeps his activities going. All man
has to do is to extract it from the ground, refine it,
put it into his machines and, astonishingly, this
liquid fuel keeps the entire mechanism of his
civilization running smoothly. Countless resources
of this type have been created in this world, and
there is enough of everything to meet man’s needs.
Man’s part in bringing these things into being, or in
changing them into some useful form, is a relatively
small one. Therefore, with the minimum of effort,
he has his clothes, houses, furniture, machines,
vehicles and all the other components and acces-
sories of his civilization. Are such occurrences not
sufficient to prove that there is indeed a Maker and
a Master of this world?
But we must not forget that there is another side to
all this. Nature has provided us with a pure and
beautiful world, yet what have our own actions
made of it? We may have refined petroleum and
made machines out of iron, but we have also filled
the land and sea with corruption. We have
converted the world into an arena of smoke, noise,
pollution, vandalism and war. We have taken these
things to such extremes that quite frequently there
