Islam The Voice of Human Nature
2. THE CONCEPT OF MONOTHEISM
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through human observation of a universe
teeming with innumerable objects, from the
human beings below to the stars above: where
was the unity in this scattered and awesome
diversity? It was concluded that a single,
absolute God made Himself manifest in these
proliferating forms, and this God consequently
became an abstract idea, with no objective
existence, from whom flowed all things and
with whom they finally commingled. This view
also gave birth to the concept of ‘human gods;’
it was presumed that certain individuals,
through sustained meditation, could achieve
negation of their worldly existence and become
a living part of God in this life: a distinction
others would achieve only after death!
With the advent of Islam, all these unnatural
growths, distortions of and additions to the
concept of God were rooted out, and all ideas
concerning God were rectified and placed in
the correct perspective. It was made plain by
Islam that previous human conjectures which
had led to the invention of a whole panoply of
state for God had been, in fact, a negation of
