3. ISLAM IS THE VOICE OF HUMAN NATURE

~ 57 ~ understood and appreciated, is inconceivable when its Creator and Sustainer is an all-knowing God. Man’s discovery of faith instills in him the conviction that a day must come when the unseen God – the great orchestrator of all events in the Universe – will make Himself manifest, so that man will see and believe tomorrow what he fails to see and, therefore, questions, today. His belief tells him that the manifestation of the Creator and Master will be like the brightness of the sun after the darkness of the night – the manifestation, indeed, of an omniscient Judge and Arbiter. The Lord’s manifestation of Himself will be the hour of retribution for the universe. At the very moment of His appearance, the arrogant and the self-centred will be cast down from their selferected pedestals, when they will seem smaller than the smallest of insects. In sharp contrast, God’s righteous and faithful servants, no matter how oppressed and dejected in condition, will forthwith become exalted and worthy of the