Quranic Interpretation of Human History
English book, p. 17
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
QURANIC INTERPRETATION OF HUMAN HISTORY for humanity’s guidance. These Messengers communicated to mankind that there is only one God worthy of being worshipped, and they should shun the worship of any other being. While in the traditional age, no supportive evidence for this was available, in the modern scientific age, science itself, through its findings on nature or creation, provides evidence affirming the existence of the One God, who is the Creator, Master, and Sustainer of the universe, as described in the Quran. Sincere thinking people can discover God at a purely rational level. Any sincere, thinking person can also discover the right and wrong use of human freedom. Anyone who reflects on this seriously will discover that there exists a criterion inside every person for distinguishing between right and wrong by birth, called ‘the conscience.’ Everyone can learn what to do and what not to do by listening to the voice of his conscience. It is as if every person’s conscience is his guide for him. By birth itself, within everyone, a powerful emotion of acknowledgement is present. Through his conscience, every person knows he ought to acknowledge this if somebody behaves kindly to him. Man’s internal guide recognizes this acknowledgement as a lofty ethical virtue. Acknowledgement reflects a high level of righteousness, while failure to acknowledge indicates corruption and moral decline. In this sense, a person who acknowledges others keeps his status as a human, while someone who does not falls from that status. This decision of the conscience is also accurate in the same way about the Creator. In line with the voice of his nature,

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