Man’s Craving for an object of Worship

MAN’S CRAVING FOR AN OBJECT OF WORSHIP A believer sees the beauty of the Creator in the beauty of creation and surrenders himself totally to God, prostrating down before his Creator. When the russian cosmonaut andrei nikolai returned to the earth after his space flight in 1962, he said at a press conference in Moscow on august 21, “When i landed on the earth, i felt like kissing the ground.” among all parts of the known universe, there is no place other than the earth where such an enormous number of things have been gathered to meet man’s requirements. When the russian cosmonaut went into space, he discovered that in its incredible vastness, there was nothing for man but astonishment and confusion. There was nothing to provide either for his physical or mental comfort. after this experience, when he landed back on earth, he realized his planet’s pricelessness, just as a man understands the value of water when his throat has been parched with thirst for a very long time. The earth, with all its favourable circumstances, appeared so dear to him that he felt like embracing it to express his feelings towards it. The shariah describes this action as turning something into a deity (ilah) or object of worship. unable to see his Creator, man makes his creation his ilah or object of worship. a momin or a true believer discovers reality by passing beyond