Islam The Voice of Human Nature
FOREWORD
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a man’s life remains unaffected by it, and he clings
fast to his ‘religion’ all twenty-four hours of the day,
be he conscious of this or not.
The point which is missed by so many people
nowadays is that whatever our goals in life;
whether selfless or selfish, and whatever the zeal
with which we pursue them, our ultimate goal
should be to prostrate ourselves before God. No
goal should ever be so placed above and beyond
religion that the godhead becomes eclipsed. And no
matter what kind of religion we choose for
ourselves – God-centred, pantheistic or Godless –
we should never lose sight of the fact that in this
world we are all on trial. There is a common, but
erroneous belief that a Godless religion coupled
with material success should be the be-all and end-
all of existence. But success achieved without God’s
being an all-pervasive factor is a trivial, ephemeral
matter, relative only to life on earth, and will not
support one into the life Hereafter. When death
finally overtakes a man, all his material possessions
and all his worldly successes fall away from him,
and he is left, alone, and empty-handed, to stand
before God, who will arise before Him in all His
