Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I Discover God
The Quran defines one quality of those true servants of God whom He will be pleased with as their “faith in the unseen” (2:3). As for those who “only know the outward appearance of the life of this world” (30:7), they can never come close to God.
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I Discover God
Modern technology has produced a mechanical ‘man’–the robot–which performs the prodigious feats of walking, talking and working. But, at the end of it all, it functions in a purely mechanical way, just like any other man-made machine. In no way does it evince the subtlety of behaviour controlled by human intelligence which we find in homo sapiens.
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I Discover God
“Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created,” (The Quran, 88: 17)
The camel is one of the unique creations of God. It serves as a sign for those who disbelieve Him. Besides giving us milk, meat, wool and hide, as other animals do, a camel is endowed with some unique characteristics, hence its title, ‘Ship of the Desert’. It escorts man on his unbearably harsh journey through the barrenness of the hot, dry deserts of sand.
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan I Discover God
How grand and imposing the dome of a mausoleum appears from afar. Less so when the great edifice is entered and there appears, lying as low as could be, a solitary grave. What a contrast between the mighty dome–a symbol of human greatness, and that low-lying grave–a testimony to man’s utter helplessness. The two constructions present a picture of the startling and agonizing discrepancy between what man seeks in this world and what really comes his way.
