Islam Rediscovered
5. Islam in Brief
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subsequently help promote Islamic values, and this
may gradually prepare a firm ground for a real
Islamic State to stand on.
To establish an ideal Islamic State is not the main
target of Islam, as is wrongly projected by some
groups of Muslims. An Islamic State is something
that may ultimately emerge from a society
consisting of sincere, practising Muslims, and its
government may take any workable form, —this
being neither predictable nor pre-determinable.
Such a State, according to the Qur’an (24:55), is a
worldly reward of God granted to His righteous
servants, when He wills, and not a direct target
towards which the Muslim community must
struggle.
To conclude, Islam begins when one discovers God
as the ultimate truth. This results in a spiritual
transformation which leads to new thinking and
new sentiments —indeed to the emergence of a
whole new personality. A new man is born: he is
quite different from what he was before. He now
becomes a combination of spirituality, compassion
and tranquillity. This is like an intellectual and
