RENAISSANCE FEBRUARY 2021

Faith & Beliefs 36 Monthly Renaissance February 2021 them and spend for them. This developed into care for relatives and payment of zak ā h . Thus the human soul evolved; the idea of ensuring that rights of God are met constructed beliefs and worship and that of meeting obligations towards relatives and other humans developed morals and behaviour towards others. This is the straight path of nature and God worship. This is the real pathway of spiritual evolution. At one end of this road is the father of humans: Adam (sws) and at the other end is the seal of prophets, Mu ḥ ammad (sws). In the middle are millions of prophets and messengers of God and preachers of truth who are standing at a little distance from each other. They came in their time to invite man to take this road, but the latter continued to stray and create anarchy in the world after accepting their invitation again and again. Thus, every messenger had to say: َﻌْﺪَ ﺻْﻶَﻹﺣﻬَﺎ Ã ﻵْﻹَرْض LS ْ * ﻔْﺴﺪ * و h وَﻵَﻹ . ) ٥٦:٧ ( Do no mischief on the earth, after it hath been set in order. (7:56) ( Translated by Nikhat Sattar ) ـــــــــــــــــــــــــ