Islam & Concept of Salvation
- From: Nawaz <nawaz_chillizone@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 00:14:05 -0800 (PST)
Hi Folks
Private relationship between man and his Creator is essentially
founded on the idea of salvation. Salvation is common to all
religions, even to Buddhism which does not acknowledge the existence
of God.The idea of salvation was born out of the belief that man's
stopover on earth was one of bondage. How to free him from that
bondage thus became the main object of his life.
Islam on the other hand, is neither such a relationship between man
and God, nor is it characterized by the experience of an individual of
a subjective nature, but is essentially a "Code of Life" regulating
the conduct of affairs concerning the individual as well as the
collective life of human beings. Secondly, it does not consider man's
life on earth a period of bondage; therefore the idea of salvation
does not arise in this approach. In reality Islam has assigned to man
a very high position in the universe. Islam expects him to take up the
challenge of life boldly in order to harness the forces of nature for
the development of his own self and the larger community of mankind.
The fallacy of considering Islam a religion springs from the fact that
absolute "faith" in God is of fundamental importance to it, as it is
supposed to be more or less so in all religions, past and present, but
it is not only the " faith" in God that should serve as a criterion in
arriving at a correct estimate of one or the other. The real question
we should be concerned with is, what is the concept of God which is
supposed to be the common factor?
Regards
Nawaz
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