Islam As It Is
Prophethood
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in life—the question of what course of action to
adopt. No efforts of his own can enable him to
arrive at an answer to this question: the experience
of thousands of years has shown this to be true.
Not finding any answer to his question in the world
around him, man started delving into the matter
himself, but whole generations of truth-seekers
have failed to arrive at any convincing conclusions.
Man may have discovered the principles
underlying the motion of the stars and planets, but
he has not been successful in finding out anything
about his own life’s journey—where it began, and
where it will all come to an end. He has discovered
the laws of the animal, vegetable and mineral
worlds, but the law of man himself has remained a
mystery to him. He has grasped the fact that when
matter is destroyed, it converts into energy, which
then turns into matter when destroyed itself. But
what happens to a man after death? No answer to
this question has so far been furnished by the
human intellect. Man has discovered that all objects
in the universe are governed in their behaviour by
one unchanging law, and that they have continued
to function for millions of years without once
