AN APPEAL TO THE HEART

~ 42 ~ prophetic way, and would explain it accordingly. This is, no doubt, the most appropriate definition of his work. Considering that there are people who attach importance to things only when they are described in the modern terminologies of psychology, philosophy and science and so on, this programme can likewise be described in any language they can understand, or which has a special significance for them. His message gives prime importance to the Kalimah: to believe in the reality that there is no deity but God, that He alone is the Creator and Nourisher of the universe, and that the truth had been made manifest through his messenger, the Prophet Mohammad (on whom be peace). When one recites these words: there is no deity but God and the Prophet Mohammad is His messenger, it amounts to expressing one’s inner feelings of conviction of the truth of these words. It also proclaims one’s determination to follow a path based on the firm conviction that God is the only real existence, centre of all our complete trust. This proclamation is an expression of an all-pervasive feeling within one of having at last found the true way of life and also the source from which the truth