1. ISLAM: CREATOR OF THE MODERN AGE

~ 28 ~ THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL EVIL To believe something to be sacred when it is not so is the root of all evil. In religious terminology, this amounts to polytheism. Polytheism must be regarded as the greatest injustice, or zulm. Zulm in Arabic means, literally, the putting of something in the wrong place, in this case, the assigning of a value to something, which does not merit it. Shirk (another Arabic word similar in meaning to, Zulm) is the greatest wrong, for it implies a reverence for things which are not, in reality, sacred or worthy of worship. It accords to non-gods the place, which is the supreme prerogative of the one God. The greatest harm in this iniquitous practice is that it changes man’s focus of worship. He begins to revere such beings as are unworthy of reverence. The result is that man is deprived of the only support that he has in the universe. He is unable to have the sustenance of divine blessings. And one who is denied divine blessings in this world is denied them likewise in the next. Because no other power save that of God can give these blessings to man.