Islam Creator of the Modern Age
1. Islam: Creator of the Modern Age
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own natural urges, is forced to believe in God and
surrender to Him. Man can refuse to believe in one
God, but he cannot refuse his own nature. In
consequence, those who do not believe in the
Creator have to pay the price by believing (as one
believes in God) in God’s creatures. That is to say
that, flying in the face of facts, they give to some
creature or the other a status which they ought to
give only to God.
The Creator and the Master of this universe is God.
All true greatness belongs to Him alone. When man
makes God his sole object of worship, he is
acknowledging greatness in One who truly
deserves such obeisance. By recognising that God is
great, man stands face to face with the truth. As
such, his life becomes a true life, free from all kinds
of contradictions. His thinking and his actions both
follow the right course. His being comes into
harmony with the universe of facts. There is no
contradiction between him and this universe.
Whereas when man takes something other than
God to be great, when he accords to it a status
which should be God’s alone, the result is that his
