The Qur’an For All Humanity
Knowledge and Ignorance
~ 51 ~
Worse still, he attributes his salvation to something
other than God. Sometimes he attributes it to a
miracle wrought by false gods, at other times to the
‘miracle’ of cause and effect.
Some people are distressed only by material loss.
Others become restless at the remembrance of God.
It is people such as the latter who are god fearing.
Their belief in God is not the products of
circumstances (that is, inherited by birth in a certain
family) but is a conscious discovery on their part.
They have found God as a Superior Being and all
their hopes and fears are associated with that same
Being. Their restlessness does not allow them to
pass the night sleeping comfortably. Their
solicitude is not that of ignorance but results from
the remembrance of God.
The one who experiences great emotional stirring in
remembering God is the truly knowledgeable
person, while the one who is affected in this way
only by material matters, who is aroused only by
material shocks from his comfortable sleep, is the
really ignorant person.
