Islam its meaning for modern man

provide the guidance which will foster beneficence and will at the same time eliminate or reduce to a minimum the fear and dread attendant upon the misapplication of God’s bounties.

The imperative need is for moral and spiritual values to control and regulate the application of the daily increasing stores of power which science is making available to man. The alternative is disaster.

For the achievement of this purpose, Islam insists upon firm faith in the Unity of God and a clear concept of man’s accountability, both here and Hereafter, in respect of his conduct. This would ensure acceptance of Divine guidance, and conformity to that guidance would result in righteous action (5:70).

Belief in the Unity of God means recognition and acceptance of the truth that there is no other being worthy of man’s worship and homage. He is the sole and perfect source of all Beneficence. Everything else is merely a means which He has created and provided for man’s service. He has neither partner nor associate in His Being or in His attributes, and there is none like unto Him. The Quran is very emphatic on that.

“He is Allah, the One; Allah, the Independent and Besought of all. He begets not, nor is He begotten, and there is none like unto Him” (112:2⎯5).

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