THE FIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM

The Five Pillars of Islam ~ 92 ~ may garner indications from his own inner nature and from the world all around him, but he needs someone to spell out the Lord’s message to him in quite unmistakable terms. In particular, he does not wish to be left in any doubt as to the events of the Last Day, and who is better to explain them to him in advance than God’s very own Prophet? It is exactly at this crucial, questing stage of his spiritual development that the words of the Prophet resound in his ears: “I am God’s servant and His Apostle. The Lord has sent me to bring guidance to mankind. Come to me and hear the message of God.” The genuine seeker after the truth will have little difficulty in recognizing the Prophet’s call, for he will already have broken down the walls of prejudice and indifference which confine the ignorant and the complacent within their cell of spiritual darkness. The truth-seeker will recognize the word of God, as His Prophet brings it to him, just as a child recognizes his own mother’s voice. Through the words of the Prophet, he comes truly to know God. His soul blossoms at the very sound of them in the way that drought stricken land puts