1. ISLAM: CREATOR OF THE MODERN AGE

~ 23 ~ own natural urges, is forced to believe in God and surrender to Him. Man can refuse to believe in one God, but he cannot refuse his own nature. In consequence, those who do not believe in the Creator have to pay the price by believing (as one believes in God) in God’s creatures. That is to say that, flying in the face of facts, they give to some creature or the other a status which they ought to give only to God. The Creator and the Master of this universe is God. All true greatness belongs to Him alone. When man makes God his sole object of worship, he is acknowledging greatness in One who truly deserves such obeisance. By recognising that God is great, man stands face to face with the truth. As such, his life becomes a true life, free from all kinds of contradictions. His thinking and his actions both follow the right course. His being comes into harmony with the universe of facts. There is no contradiction between him and this universe. Whereas when man takes something other than God to be great, when he accords to it a status which should be God’s alone, the result is that his