Spirit of Islam · SENSE OF INCOMPLETENESS — Find The Divine Scheme

SENSE OF INCOMPLETENESS — Find The Divine Scheme

Spirit of Islam, Apr 2014, p. 26

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.

SENSE OF INCOMPLETENESS Find the Divine Scheme A N Italian writer, Luzia A Costa, penned an article titled: The Feeling of Incompleteness and Inability to be Happy. In this article, he refers to the fact that man always lives with lack of satisfaction. He says that human beings by their very nature suffer from a feeling of incompleteness. The Italian writer rightly alluded to this nature of man. But he failed to give a rational explanation of this phenomenon. The right answer is given in the Quran in these words: “Those who believe and whose hearts find comfort in the remembrance of God — surely in the remembrance of God, hearts can find comfort.” (THE QURAN 13: 28) Being unaware of the creation plan of God makes one dissatisfied, and awareness of the plan instantly makes one satisfied. It means that those who have discovered God have also discovered the creation plan of God. This discovery gives them the right explanation of nature. And when they realize this right explanation, automatically they become satisfied. Being unaware of the explanation makes one dissatisfied, and awareness of the explanation instantly makes one satisfied. It is a fact that everything in the universe except for man lives in satisfaction. The material world and the plant and animal kingdoms all live in a state of satisfaction. It is strictly a human phenomenon that man lives with the sense of dissatisfaction or incompleteness. The reason is that man is born as an idealist or perfectionist. This is the nature of every man and woman, but the world in which we live is imperfect or less than ideal. It fails to fulfil the requirements of human nature. Every human being lives with this sense of incompleteness, and in a very short while, dies without experiencing the fulfilment which had been his cherished goal. This sense of incompleteness was not created by man himself. Rather it is a creation of God. When we observe that, except man, all creatures

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