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Living in God's Glory

English book, p. 214

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

is God’s alone. Moreover, every such supposition is entirely false because a human being, in reality, is a helpless creature, and he can in no sense acquire the status of the Creator. THE INNATE EMOTION TO FIND THE CREATOR The Creator is the ideal that a human being is anxious to find. The thing that everyone is actually in search of is God, the Creator of every soul. human beings have a strange feature that is not shared by any other creature. it is the unlimited desire to search for something. Every human being has this desire within him, from birth itself, which makes him constantly search for something unknown that he has not yet found. no success or achievement whatsoever manages to satisfy this desire. nor does any failure destroy it. Philosophers have termed this as the desire for the ideal. This desire for the ideal is the real and final moving force behind all human activities. if this desire were absent, all activities in this world would suddenly stop. sigmund Freud wrongly termed this powerful desire of the human mind as sexual desire. alfred adler wrongly branded it as the desire for power. William Mcdougall erroneously claimed that it was a mysterious result of the combination of various animalistic instincts in man. Karl Marx tried to prove

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