Islam The Voice of Human Nature
3. ISLAM IS THE VOICE OF HUMAN NATURE
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understood and appreciated, is inconceivable
when its Creator and Sustainer is an all-knowing
God.
Man’s discovery of faith instills in him the
conviction that a day must come when the
unseen God – the great orchestrator of all events
in the Universe – will make Himself manifest, so
that man will see and believe tomorrow what he
fails to see and, therefore, questions, today. His
belief tells him that the manifestation of the
Creator and Master will be like the brightness of
the sun after the darkness of the night – the
manifestation, indeed, of an omniscient Judge
and Arbiter.
The Lord’s manifestation of Himself will be the
hour of retribution for the universe. At the very
moment of His appearance, the arrogant and the
self-centred will be cast down from their self-
erected pedestals, when they will seem smaller
than the smallest of insects. In sharp contrast,
God’s righteous and faithful servants, no matter
how oppressed and dejected in condition, will
forthwith become exalted and worthy of the
