Islam As It Is
Prophethood
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God, who has created this world and who guides it
on its journey by means of His divine power. We
find this answer acceptable because it is in no way
far-fetched. Belief in God, in fact, is in no essential
way different from belief in ourselves. At the purely
human level, we apprehend ourselves as beings
who see, hear, think, move around, use their hands
and their brains, make plans, make things happen
in the world, and so on. Just this experience of
ourselves tells us that human beings are invested
with certain powers, albeit in limited form. What
then is so extraordinary about these same powers
being embodied, to absolute perfection, in an all-
powerful God? The relative scales on which these
powers are enjoyed may be widely different but, in
essence, the powers remain the same. The “I am”
that everyone understands in everyday life is the
very statement which proves that “God is.”
The other certainty which the Prophet brings to us
is that this universe has a definite end which will
become manifest to us after death. He makes it clear
also that the power which man appears to wield in
this world has been granted to him only for a
certain limited period of time so that he may be put
