Islam Rediscovered
6. The Creation Plan of God
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presence everywhere of rebellious and insolent
people. In the heavenly society of the Hereafter, all
such evil-doers will be separated from good people;
the heavenly society will then be comprised only of
virtuous souls. Only in heaven then will it be
possible to create an ideal society.
The error in the thinking of secular philosophers
derives from their desire to construct in this present
world the ideal society — the society which,
according to God’s scheme of things, is going to
become a reality only in the world of the Hereafter.
The most formidable obstacle to the emergence of
an ideal society is human freedom, but thanks to the
exigencies of God’s trial of humanity, human
freedom is not going to be taken away. The ideal
society will thus remain a distant dream.
According to the Qur’an, the truth has been fully set
forth in this world. Now it is up to man to put his
faith in it or to deny it (18:29). At another point the
Qur’an says:
It rests with God to show the right path. Some
turn aside from it, but had He pleased, He
