Islam As It Is
Belief in God
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Him. God, for him, becomes a treasure which he
cherishes, and it is to Him then that he has recourse
for all his worldly and eternal needs.
Suppose someone eats an apple, but detects no
flavour in it and receives no nourishment from it.
He might be said not to have eaten an apple at all,
but only something which looks like an apple. The
same is true of one’s realization of God. A man who
has truly discovered God will blissfully savour the
essence of the experience. Anyone who claims to
have discovered God without this accompanying
sense of elation has certainly made no such
discovery. He has only discovered something which
he mistakenly thinks is God. He is like the man
eating a fake apple and deriving no satisfaction
from it.
God’s world is a collection of atoms. In its elemental
form, it all consists of one and the same type of inert
matter; but God has moulded this matter into
countless diverse forms: light, heat, greenery,
flowing water. He has also invested lifeless matter
with the properties of colour, taste and smell; and
everywhere, he has set things in motion, having
