New Planning

NEW PLANNING A new age of monotheism was ushered in by settling Hajira and Ishmael in the barren desert four thousand years ago. This resulted in a new generation, brought up in an environment of pure nature, free of conditioning, later known as the Ishmaelites. T he existence of the Creator is unobservable, whereas His creation is observable. Because of this, from the beginning of history, man has given himself up to creature worship or nature worship. A natural urge to worship One God has been inculcated in human nature. A Quranic verse points to this reality, “My Lord, they have led so many men astray.” (14:36) All those distinctively visible entities that aroused wonder in the human mind were given the godhead status and worshipped. For instance, the sun, the moon, the planets, the mountains, the seas, etc. That was the principal reason for man’s failure to accept the religion of monotheism throughout human history. Only the religion of phenomenon worship retained its hold in all human settlements. In the Quran, such worship is called shirk or polytheism. This continued