The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
Qur’an: The Voice of God
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destination in life’s struggle which will transcend
the plane of pure materialism. They still need
someone or something to love. They still yearn for
one in whose remembrance they can warm their
hearts and revitalize their spirits. But just as idols
made of stone have never given any true support or
help in the past, neither do the more resplendent
idols of today, for, fragile and ephemeral as they
are, they do not give a nation any real strength.
The Germans, for example, idolized their nation,
but, far from standing by them, it brought them to
the point of destruction in World War II. Italy and
Japan did likewise, but their respective idols could
not save their countries from becoming the
graveyards of the people. Britain and France also
made idols of their material resources, but even
then, the empires of both countries rapidly shrank,
the sun finally setting on the British Empire, an
empire on which it was said ‘the sun never set.’
The Qur’an shows us where strength in this world
really lies, giving us a handhold on a rope that
never breaks. Without this, we have no real support
in life. Moreover, it is only through our attachment
