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Nature and Man

English book, p. 18

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

blessings of the Benefactor alone is the price one must pay to get the right to use these blessings for oneself. It is no minor matter to separate the blessings and the Benefactor, make full use of the former and forget the latter altogether. It is nothing but a heinous crime. Moreover, this crime destroys man’s life. As a result of this, man becomes rebellious. Instead of discipline, he adopts unlimited freedom as his way. Instead of being duty-conscious, he becomes rights-conscious. Abandoning all responsibility, he hurtles off on the path of anarchy. In other words, instead of accepting God as God, he seeks to put himself in God’s place. In this way, the philosophy of Humanism emerges, based on the concept of the transfer of seat from God to man. In the ancient past, man had superstitious beliefs and customs about nature. It undoubtedly was something very wrong, but it was minor in comparison. The ideology about nature in modern times is even more dangerous in its damaging effects. Its damage was not just that it led to devastating wars such as the two World Wars, which had never happened before, or

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