Islam As It Is
The Five Pillars of Islam
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may garner indications from his own inner nature
and from the world all around him, but he needs
someone to spell out the Lord’s message to him in
quite unmistakable terms. In particular, he does not
wish to be left in any doubt as to the events of the
Last Day, and who is better to explain them to him
in advance than God’s very own Prophet? It is
exactly at this crucial, questing stage of his spiritual
development that the words of the Prophet resound
in his ears: “I am God’s servant and His Apostle.
The Lord has sent me to bring guidance to
mankind. Come to me and hear the message of
God.”
The genuine seeker after the truth will have little
difficulty in recognizing the Prophet’s call, for he
will already have broken down the walls of
prejudice and indifference which confine the
ignorant and the complacent within their cell of
spiritual darkness. The truth-seeker will recognize
the word of God, as His Prophet brings it to him,
just as a child recognizes his own mother’s voice.
Through the words of the Prophet, he comes truly
to know God. His soul blossoms at the very sound
of them in the way that drought stricken land puts
