Islam The Voice of Human Nature
3. ISLAM IS THE VOICE OF HUMAN NATURE
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overwhelming urge to have both, he will not even
touch them. In this way, he prepares himself for a
well-regulated and responsible life, doing only
what is his duty and refraining from pernicious acts
and habits. He is thus strengthened to continue
with his mission in life, no matter how he may be
beset by adversity.
God has endowed man with innumerable gifts, but,
all too often, he takes them for granted without any
feelings of gratitude. Countless benefits like the air,
the sun, the water, have been showered upon man,
the absence of anyone of which would cast his
delicately balanced system into a living hell. But
because he has received these things without any
effort on his part, he sets no great value upon them,
and hardly ever stops to ponder upon how they
came to be his.
It is only when fasting temporarily curbs the
satisfying of his desires that his consciousness of the
value of these divine gifts is awakened. When, at
sunset, after a whole day’s hunger, thirst and the
accompanying discomfort and fatigue, a man
begins to eat and drink, he becomes fully aware of
