Islam Rediscovered
6. The Creation Plan of God
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(Qur’an, 33:11) and not in normal, peaceful
circumstances.
God looks with favour upon those human beings
who, finding themselves in the midst of a jungle of
theories and ideologies, are able to discern the truth
and then to persevere in their adherence to it. He
gives His approval to those human beings whose
faith remains unshaken even in the face of severe
problems and dire adversity; whose hearts, even
when they are subjected to all manner of
persecution, are untainted by negative sentiments;
who when threatened with calamity, do not lose
heart, but undergo such a process of brainstorming
as will lead to their intellectual development; who
even when faced with such untoward events as are
likely to divert them from the Straight Path, remain
staunch in their faith in God; who feel the great
tumult of the awakening of spirituality in their
hearts, bringing them closer to God.
The man most desirable to God is one worthy of
inhabiting the refined and ideal world of Paradise.
Such a person, the rarest of rare phenomena, is
greater than all that is great in the Universe. Such a
