From: hra2@Lehigh.EDU (Hibatur Rahman Ahmad)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK (Part 4)
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:25:48 GMT


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The following article is taken from a booklet title "The Light of Revelation
-A Glimpse of The Meanings of The Final Divine Revelation To Humankind- The
Quran" published by Islamic Outreach-ABIM 3402 Jalan Ampang Hilir 2, 55000
Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA.  Tel: 6-03-457-4608  There is NO COPYRIGHT for this
booklet.  Any organisation or individual wishing to reproduce the booklet may
do so freely.  An acknowledgement would be appreciated.
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FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK (Part 4)
                                Mankind

So when your Lord told the angels:
"I am placing a representative on earth,"
they said: "Will you place someone there who will corrupt it
and shed blood, while we hymn Your praise and santify You?"
He (God) said: "I know what you do not know."
                                                    (Baqarah 2: 30)

We have indeed created man
in the best of moulds.
                                                    (Tin 95: 4)

It is He who has created for you
the faculties of hearing, sight, feeling and understanding:
little thanks it is ye give
                                                    (Mu'minun 23: 78)

Does Man think he will be left uncontrolled,
without purpose.....
                                                    (Qiyamah 75: 36)

I have only created Jinns and Men,
that they may serve Me.
                                                    (Zariyat 51: 56)

We have created man and know
What his soul is whispering within him.
We are closer to him
than his jugular vein
                                                    (Qaf 50: 16)

That which is on earth
We have made but as a glittering show thereof,
In order that We may test them;
as to which of them are best in conduct.
                                                    (Kahf 18: 7)

    Mankind is created the of creations and endowed with the best intellectual
faculties.  We are NOT born in SIN.  If God were to punish us for the sins of
the first man, then He is a revengeful god - not god of love.  His standards
of justice will even be lower than that of mankind.

    The TRUTH is God is full of LOVE, MERCY and COMPASSION.  His mercy
overwhelms His wrath.  We only sinned if we ourselves choose to transgress the
way of God.

    God has appointed mankind as His Representative on earth, to oversee and
rule over other creations and creatures.  This is a great responsibility.  We
are given  FREE-WILL to fulfill or transgress this trust from God.  We must
lead a life commensurate with our dignity as human beings and never to regress
to becoming mere animals where only the fittest survive.

    We have a sublime destiny.  This life is a test and short compared to the
ETERNAL HEREAFTER.  The world's goods that men scramble for - worldly power,
glory, wealth, position are but a fleeting show.  their possession does not be
token our real position in the spiritual world - which will ENDURE FOREVER.

TO BE CONTINUED (God Willing)

***KNOW that Islam is a universal religion as a way of life.  It governs every
aspect of human life, from individual's behaviour to living in community, from
social and economic principles to political system, from government justice to
international relation, and above all, from relation between human being to
human being up to relation between human being and his creator, the One and
Only One God.

***KNOW that the term traditionalist, conservative, extrimist, fundamentalist,
radical or similar labels DO NOT originate from Islam.  In Islam it is either
to be a Believer or a Non-Believer, either to be a True Believer or a Hypocrite,
either to practise Islam as a whole or leave it all.

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