Islam Creator of the Modern Age
1. Islam: Creator of the Modern Age
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THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL EVIL
To believe something to be sacred when it is not so
is the root of all evil. In religious terminology, this
amounts to polytheism. Polytheism must be
regarded as the greatest injustice, or
zulm
.
Zulm
in
Arabic means, literally, the putting of something in
the wrong place, in this case, the assigning of a
value to something, which does not merit it.
Shirk
(another Arabic word similar in meaning to
, Zulm
)
is the greatest wrong, for it implies a reverence for
things which are not, in reality, sacred or worthy of
worship. It accords to non-gods the place, which is
the supreme prerogative of the one God.
The greatest harm in this iniquitous practice is that
it changes man’s focus of worship. He begins to
revere such beings as are unworthy of reverence.
The result is that man is deprived of the only
support that he has in the universe. He is unable to
have the sustenance of divine blessings. And one
who is denied divine blessings in this world is
denied them likewise in the next. Because no other
power save that of God can give these blessings to
man.
