Islam Rediscovered
25. Conclusion
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The trend of studying Islam all over the world
shows that this process has already begun and the
twenty first century will be the century of Islam. If
the nineteenth century was marked by the
knowledge explosion and the twentieth century by
the atomic explosion, the twenty first century is
destined to be marked by the Islamic explosion.
The fact is that, for the building of life, man is in
need of divine guidance. Religion is the name of
this divine guidance. And Islam is the only
preserved and reliable version of religion. Just as
there is no source of physical light save that of the
sun, similarly there is no other source of divine
guidance for life except that of Islam. Islam is the
only reliable, authentic and dependable answer to
this question.
Man, born to live on the planet earth, has been
endowed with free choice, but he is not the master
of his destiny. The most crucial aspect of life is that
he is accountable to God Almighty for all his deeds.
There is no escape from this accountability. After a
brief span on earth, he is destined to face his death
and find himself before God for his fate to be
