God and Man
English book, p. 219
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
GOD AND MAN For thousands of years, people have been trying to search for this ideal in the things of this world. Yet, no one could be satisfied without obtaining the complete answer to this quest. In this regard, an Emperor is as unsatisfied as an unemployed pauper. This long experience of humankind is enough to prove that the answer to an individual’s quest is not present in the visible world. Instead, the answer lies in the world that is not visible—the unseen realm—a world that a person can sense but cannot see. The fact is that this desire is the desire for God. The Creator is the ideal that a human is so anxious to find. The thing that everyone is actually in search of is God, the Creator of every soul. Based on their innate nature, every person remains continuously searching for God. This inner emotion drives people to the things of the world. They imagine that perhaps these things are the answer to their search. But they realize they are not what they were looking for when they obtain these things and experience them at close range. GOD AND MAN The most outstanding evidence for God’s existence is man’s existence. It is as strange to accept a Being like God as it is to accept a being like man. If we accept a being like man, we must be ready to accept a being like God. According to the Quran (15:29), God breathed His spirit into man. This means that man is a human reflection of God’s attributes like existence, life, knowledge, power,

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