The Man Islam Builds

The Prophet Muhammad , once said: “Beware of the wisdom of mu’min (a believer), because he sees with the light of God.” How is it that a mu’min becomes a man of wisdom, in such a superior sense? It is because his faith makes him pious and God-fearing. In his state of piety, he undergoes the inner experience which psychologists call brainstorming. This helps activate his potential to the full extent. The result is miraculous: if, before, he was a man, now after this brainstorming, he becomes a superman. Then comes dawah, that is, the call to Islam. According to the Quran, dawah is the great jihad. Why is dawah the great jihad, or great struggle? Because it is a universal mission. It is a most serious task. It engages one’s entire capacities throughout one’s whole life. Every time one is faced with intellectual challenges, one is bound to give a strong response. Thus, dawah becomes an extensive course of action through which one’s personality develops day by day, until one reaches the highest level of intellectual and spiritual development. Iman (faith) and dawah are two basic levels of Islam. If iman is a superior ideology, dawah is a superior course of action. Iman purifies one’s mind and soul, while dawah imbues one’s personality with a sublime probity. One who adopts Islam as a universal mission, in both the ideological and practical sense, is morally activated to the maximum possible extent and this course, slowly but surely, leads him to reach the highest pinnacle of humanity. Stating the relationship between man and true religion the Quran says: So you set your face towards the true faith uprightly, the upright nature with which God has endowed man,