Islam Rediscovered
6. The Creation Plan of God
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of which we should study human history, is that
laid down by our Creator. The right way to
understand this matter is, therefore, to discover the
creation plan of the creator and then attempt to
study history within its framework.
From a study of the Qur’an, we learn that for a
proper understanding of human society the central
idea is not ideal society, but it is human freedom.
Man has been granted full freedom of speech and
action in this life the reason being that he has been
placed in this world by the Almighty for the
purpose of being tested. As a prerequisite for this
test, man is at liberty to deny God, to kill prophets
and to oppose the
da‘is
(messengers) of truth. Given
such a state of affairs, human freedom would have
to be withdrawn altogether in order to bring an
ideal society into existence. And God, in accordance
with His plan of creation, would never under any
circumstances abrogate human freedom. The
particular nature of human existence on earth has
been thus explained in the Qur’an:
We offered Our trust to the heavens, to the
earth and to the mountains, but they refused
