Islam The Voice of Human Nature
2. THE CONCEPT OF MONOTHEISM
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beings can also achieve perfection if they
entrust themselves entirely to God. The
universe owes its unfailing precision to the fact
that it works in complete consonance with
God’s plans. Human beings can likewise
achieve moral exactitude in their affairs by
becoming ethically attuned to the divine
scheme of things, for, after all, what is
monotheism but the fountainhead of all good:
all evil in the world stems from hampering the
prevalence of monotheism in the affairs of the
world.
Of the many arguments put forward in modern
times against the existence of God, one of the
most important is what its advocates call ‘the
problem of evil.’ They claim that there are such
evils in the universe as make it impossible to
believe that it was fashioned by a master
designer. It has been argued, in this context, that
the force of gravity is far in excess of actual need
and that, as a consequence, one runs the risk, for
example, of breaking one’s leg should one fall
from a height of just a few metres. Had this force
been less - so the argument goes – this would
