Islam and destiny of man

these are parts qouted from the book Islam and the Destiny of Man.. it is very touching strong book.. i am still reading it and this will be regularly updated.. but i have read lots of books about islam, writen by Muslims and Converts.. this is by far one of the best... i almost cried twice while i am still in chapter 1.. i believe it is amazing how far we get to know more when reading about our own faith... how far the rest of us really need to get to the core of the religion and faith and feel comfortable in their own skin... and to know that the heart of our faith is beautiful, forgiving, enduring and much more.. if we just understand the message of the monotheistic religions.. our lives around the globe will be much much better. MAY GOD SAVE US FROM OUR OWN IGNORANCE!

I decided as I put it to myself to sow a seed in my heart, to accept Islam at once in the hope that the seed would one day germinate and grow into a healthy plant. I will offer no excuses for this, and would blame no one for acusng me of insincerity and a false intention. But it is possible that they may be underestimating god's readiness to forgive human weakness and his power to bring forth plant and fruit from the seed sown in barren ground.


I said, " no intelligent person nowadays believes in the god of religion!" he looked at me rather sadly before answering,"on the contrary, nowadays intelligent people are the only ones who do believe in god."

No one can live happily in constant disagreement with his fellow men and women, nor can he engage in argument with them since he does not share their basic, unspoken assumptions. Argument and discussion pre-suppose some common ground shared by those involved. When no common ground exists, confusion and misunderstanding are unavoidable, if not anger. The beliefs which are the very basis of contemporary culture are held no less passionately thanunquestioning religious faith.

I had allowed myself to be carried forward by the prevailing wind, and this was where the wind had set me down.

The saying of Mohammed, god gives for gentleness what he will never gove for harshness.


A Muslim, by this definition, is anyone who is able to make the confession of faith in sincerity, bearing witness to the fact that god is one, without a partner and without associate, and that Muhammad is his messenger to humanity. Since human beings can not read the secrets of hearts, the judgment as to sincerity rats only with god.

Vice plays it's tribute to virtue by masquerading behind the mask of religion- or of a political ideology- and wickedness walks the streets more confidently when decently cothed.

Quite spontaneously, without thinking what I was doing, I raised my hands and said, ' lord, here I am. Do with me as you will!'

I saw myself then as too sceptical, and worldly to be a 'religious person' as the term usually understood, but iwas under a compulsion to accept and adhere to what I found utterly convincing. This was the predestined homecoming.

I tried to show what it means to be a Muslim and to consider doctrine, history and social life in the light of the revelation which is the source of faith, as it is of a civilisation and culture constructed by human beings, god and bad, wise and foolish, out of materials crystallised from that source. But the whole, which reflects the divine plenitude, cannot be caught in any net of words. To every statement I would gladly add a formula of great significance in the context of Islam, a formula which indicates that god knows best, he alone knows truly, and that those who speak or write must always keep in mind their relative ignorance an the limitations of their perspective, just as the living must always keep death in mind. Wa Allah a'lam.