English book · The Spirit of Islam

The Voice of God

English book, p. 125

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

THE VOICE OF GOD God has instilled a conscience in every human being. Everyone has the option either to follow his inner voice, or to ignore it and start following his desires. C hapter 7 of the Quran states: “When your Lord brought forth offspring from the loins of the Children of Adam and made them bear witness about themselves, He said, ‘Am I not your Lord?’ They replied, ‘We bear witness that You are.’ This He did, lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection, ‘We had no knowledge of that.’ Or lest you say, ‘Our forefathers associated others with God before our time, and we are only the descendants who came after them. So are You going to destroy us for what those inventors of falsehood did?’ We explain Our signs in detail thus, so that perhaps they may return to Us.” (7:172-174) This alludes to the fact that the consciousness of the Creator or Lord has been instilled so deeply in the

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