The Spirit of Islam

Sometimes God chooses a messenger to convey His word to the people, but his status as a guide is not readily acceptable to them. For this would imply that they were inferior to the messenger, as they had failed to arrive at the truth themselves. On such occasions, Satan stirs up feelings of jealousy and pride. Puffed up with the feeling: ‘I am better,’ a person is not prepared to acknowledge the superiority of his brother. In the eyes of God, this amounts to treading the path of Satan. In such instances, one who treads the path of jealousy and pride makes himself deserving of the fate of hell, while one who remains humble, proves that he deserves to find an abode in the garden of Paradise. SPIRITUAL RAIMENT Spiritual Raiment means to live in fear of God, acknowledge the Truth, be modest and lead a principled life. C hapter 7of the Quran states: “O children of Adam! We have sent down to you clothes to cover your nakedness, and to be pleasing to the eye;