Shaping the Souls for Eternal Paradise
English book, p. 18
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
character or reality goes against the basic demands of man’s nature. To believe the truth to be non-absolute or relative is like saying that one does not believe anything to be true. Such a belief can only make someone a sceptic, but that is not the recipe for a successful life. NATURE AND MAN Acknowledging the blessings of the Benefactor alone is the price one must pay to get the right to use these blessings for oneself. In this world, man finds himself amidst nature: the sun and the moon, the stars, and the planets, the mountains and the seas, the trees and the desert, the birds, and the animals, etc. When man sees this vast world around him, he is utterly amazed. History tells us that ancient man began to regard nature as sacred. This led to nature worship. Taking various natural phenomena to be deities, people began to worship them. As a result, man could not use nature to progress beyond a point for thousands of years. He could not engage in research into nature and thereby employ the powers that lay hidden in it. Living amidst nature, he could not make nature useful for himself beyond a fundamental level. Regarding the various natural phenomena as powerful and sacred, people sought to worship them rather than study and investigate them.

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