The Spirit of Islam
English book, p. 152
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
When Truth appears before a person, he has two options before him. If he accepts the Truth, his mind starts off in the right direction and he becomes a wayfarer, journeying towards the Truth. But if some extraneous consideration or some psychological complication comes in his way and, under its influence, he refuses to accept the Truth, he then starts devising ways and means of justifying his rejection of it and tries to prove that his bad deeds are actually good deeds. WHEN YOUR HANDS AND FEET BEAR WITNESS TO YOUR DEEDS When man is guided by his nature, he becomes the traveller of the straight path which will lead him to eternal Paradise. C hapter 36 of the Quran states: “[And God will say], ‘Separate yourselves from the righteous this Day, you criminals. Did I not enjoin you, sons of Adam, not to worship Satan—for he is your sworn enemy–but to worship Me? Surely, that is a straight path. Yet he led astray a great multitude of you. Why

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