Islam The Voice of Human Nature
3. ISLAM IS THE VOICE OF HUMAN NATURE
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sees the glories of God in heaven’s blue vaults,
and His might and grandeur in the fury of
tempests. The birds, with their twittering, seem
to warble hymns to God. The rising sun is the
radiant hand of God extending towards him.
Every leaf of every plant and tree is a verdant
page on which he reads the story of divine
creation. Zephyrs fanning his cheeks are
harbingers of his unity with God. A true believer
in God is like a diver in the divine ocean. Every
plunge that he makes serves to unite him in his
experience more and more inextricably with his
Maker, so that he belongs to God as God belongs
to him.
Faith in God means faith in a Being who is at
once Creator, Master and Sustainer of all
creation. Everything has been made by Him and
Him alone, and receives eternal sustenance from
Him. There is nothing which can exist without
Him. Consciousness of this and faith in God go
hand in hand. As a consequence, a man of faith
begins to look upon himself as a servant of God.
In each and every thing he witnesses the glory of
God, and every blessing he receives strikes him
