Islam Rediscovered
8. The Man Islam Builds
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religion, although most men may not know it.
(30:30)
This means that every human being is created by
God to be capable—as a matter of his natural
constitution—of accepting the religion of truth. The
Unity of God is a truth, arrived at intuitively, and is
plain to every man of common sense, unless he
perverts himself by the different prejudices which
he receives from his environment. Islam is thus the
natural religion that a child left to itself would
develop. A western writer, Lady Cobbold, has
rightly described it:
Islam is the religion of common sense.
When this potential is realized, it results in the
emergence of a new man. What kind of character is
possessed by this new man is made clear by the
following
hadith:
Nine things the Lord has commanded me:
Fear of God in private and in public;
Justness, whether in anger or in calmness;
