ORGANISATION

Organisation ~ 169 ~ in the way of accepting the discipline of such an organized life, one will remain perpetually enslaved- by the dictates of one’s own ego, and will lose the opportunity to develop one’s moral potential. Those who believe in God, and subject themselves to Islamic discipline, can expect to have countless blessing bestowed upon them. Two of these stand out from the others in importance. The first enables a man to become deserving of divine succour, thus placing him in a position to overcome his opponents with the help of the Almighty, while the second saves him from hell-fire in the Afterlife, thus clearing the way for him to be admitted to the Gardens of Paradise. These blessings are reserved for those and those alone who have suppressed the ‘self’ for the sake of God, having bound themselves to a social order according to which all their religious and ethical activities are properly organized. The greatest strength of any society is its unity, and what is most damaging to that unity is the relentless pursuit or personal ambition on the part of its