Islam Rediscovered
4. Religion
~ 57 ~
prophets came to every nation and in every age,
whether or not we have any record of them.
A religious system generally includes beliefs,
worship, ethics, social behaviour, etc. One of the
important contributions of a religious system is
that, it provides man with a life-long centre around
which his intellectual and emotional being may
revolve.
Religion offers man an ideology in which he may
believe with all his heart and all his soul. It gives
man the conviction that he is in communion with
Almighty God. On finding a religion, man feels that
he has become a co-traveller with the rest of the
universe. He has become a member of the universal
brotherhood.
Religion gives man a practicable system of life. He
finds a course which he may properly pursue day
and night. Having found a religion, man feels as if
he now understands the purpose of his life; he
undergoes the same experience—but with greater
intensity—as a traveller does on reaching his
destination.
