God and His Creation Plan

to follow the divine laws set for this world by Creator. Present-day Muslims are no longer following the creation plan of God and are therefore paying the price. Why did God allow Satan to tempt us when He knew Satan could tempt us into Hell? T his is a negative approach to the subject. In reality, Satan is a source of struggle for human beings. If there were no struggle, there would be no development at all. The development of a person’s mind is a result of his response to challenging situations. If there were no Satan, there would be no field of struggle left for an individual, his mind would not unfold and he would not be able to tap into his potential. Satanic temptations give a person the opportunity to develop resilience and patience by not succumbing to them. According to a verse of the Quran, man is asked to seek refuge from the temptation caused by both Satan and man’s own soul. The verse is as follows: Say, ‘I seek refuge in the Lord of people, the King of people, the God of people, from the mischief of every sneaking whisperer, who whispers into the hearts of people, from jinn and men.’ (Quran 114: 1-6) If only belief in Allah grants salvation, then how do Muslims think that one could enter heaven before Muhammad and Islam existed? G od is the same as He was before the coming of the Prophet Muhammad. The word ‘Allah’ was used by the Arabs even before the advent of Islam, that is, even before the revelation of the Quran. Muhammad was not the first prophet of Islam, rather he was the last. Muhammad preached the same religion, as all the prophets who came before him, for example, Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jesus, Moses, etc. This has been mentioned in a verse in the Quran: God has ordained for you the same religion which He enjoined on Noah, and which We have revealed to you, and which We enjoined upon Abraham and Moses and Jesus (Quran 42:13) So, the God of the Torah, the Bible and the Quran is the same. God sent His prophets to every community in history to give guidance and only terminated His plan of sending prophets after the Book revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, the Quran, became preserved for later generations. We raised among every people a messenger who enjoined, ‘Worship God alone and shun the evil one.’ (Quran 16:36)