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God and Man

English book, p. 112

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

GOD AND MAN Whoever seeks to build his life in the right way should study the Quran and discover the One God, without whom no person can genuinely build his future. Anthropologists have found that the concept of God is deeply embedded in man’s very nature. Every person by birth comes into this world with the concept of God. Consciously or unconsciously, he must spend his entire life with this conception. Further study reveals that God is a compulsory necessity for man. Man is an explanation-seeking being. He wants to explain himself, his existence, and the environment around him. Moreover, it is a fact that without accepting God, their explanation is simply impossible. Similarly, because of his limitations, man sometimes feels that he is simply helpless. This feeling can be overcome only by faith in an all-powerful being—that is, God. Experience tells us that every person lives with unfulfilled desires. It is only God through whom man can hope for complete and lasting satisfaction. Because of his spiritual nature, man wants to live with firm conviction. The source of this conviction, too, is none other than God. For his activities, man requires a target to continue his journey towards it confidently. This target, too, he can obtain only through belief in God. Studies tell us that every person in this world believes in God somehow or the other, even those who seem to

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