In the Name of Allah, the
Gracious, the Merciful
I have a parrot at home.
I often find myself comparing her (it’s a she-parrot) life with mine.
She is caged. But does
she ever worry about her loss of freedom or about her future? Obviously not! All
day long, she chirps, mimics the humans around her, meticulously cleans her body
feathers, eats & drinks and goes to sleep soundly when she has nothing else
to do. And I don’t think she has ever worried about the inevitable death that
should come to her one day, or about what would happen thereafter. Worrying
about anything appears to be utterly foreign to her nature.
Her life and mine are
poles apart in that respect! I worry about my future in this world, and about
what would happen to me after death.
That, and a distinctively
superior intellect, differentiates mankind from other creatures we find on this
earth.
What is the significance
of this difference?
Science fails to give a
satisfactory answer.
And in an earlier post Why Do I Believe In Islam, I have explained
why Islam gives a satisfactory answer.
The Creator of the
Universe, and of everything therein including human beings, has from time to
time appointed Messengers, from among humans themselves, to inform them of the
Reality. HE has sent down divine Scriptures too with some of the Messengers for
the purpose. Besides, the Creator has impressed upon every human soul, at birth
itself, what the Reality is! The human being has just to search his own soul to
find It!
It is this self-search,
without references even from divine scriptures and depicted just with the bare
aid of commonsense, that this booklet, Why
…. Islam, projects.
I take the liberty of
presenting the booklet again as a page of my website. Click
here to get it free online.
Mohammad
Shafi
Friday,
the 25th of January 2019.
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