Islam The Voice of Human Nature
3. ISLAM IS THE VOICE OF HUMAN NATURE
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recognition of the rights of others and unity are
the pillars on which rests the entire edifice of
Islam.
FAITH
Acceptance of God as one’s Lord
(shahadah)
is
like making a covenant to place Him at the
central point in one’s life, so that He may
become the pivot of one’s thoughts and
emotions. It means entrusting oneself to Him
entirely, and focussing upon Him all one’s
hopes and aspirations, fears and entreaties.
Then, instead of living for worldly things, one
will live for one’s Sustainer. He will thus
become all in all in one’s life.
Man all too often lives for worldly things which
come to dominate his thoughts and emotions.
Some live for their household and family; some
for business and the money it brings; some for
political activity and party leadership, and some
for honour and authority. Every man, big or
small, lives for something or the other which is
material in this everyday world of ours. But this
is to live in ignorance — trying to build one’s
