Islam Rediscovered
8. The Man Islam Builds
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intellectual challenges, one is bound to give a strong
response.
Thus,
da‘wah
becomes an extensive course of action
through which one’s personality develops day by
day, until one reaches the highest level of
intellectual and spiritual development.
Iman
(faith) and
da‘wah
are two basic levels of Islam.
If
iman
is a superior ideology,
da‘wah i
s a superior
course of action.
Iman
purifies one’s mind and soul,
while
da‘wah
imbues one’s personality with a
sublime probity. One who adopts Islam as a
universal mission
,
in both the ideological and
practical sense, is morally activated to the
maximum possible extent and this course, slowly
but surely, leads him to reach the highest pinnacle
of humanity.
Stating the relationship between man and true
religion the Qur’an says:
So you set your face towards the true faith
uprightly, the upright nature with which God
has endowed man, and let there be no
alteration in God’s Creation. That is the right
