Page 14 - The Struggle of the Messengers

The Messengers'

Struggle

P eople choose various teachers to guide them through
life. For many, the most important teachers are their

family, friends, and the communities they live in. They
form their value judgments and general impressions of what is
right and wrong according to the general opinions of that society.
Some individuals look to ideologies for guidance in the belief that
the founder of their personal ideology is a superior person whose
teachings can reveal the truth to them. Other individuals profess
no ideology, preferring to be guided by their own intuitive
intelligence.
However, all of these ideas rest on a common falsehood. Those
who claim society as their teacher and adopt some "superior"
individual or their own intelligence as their guide are rejecting or

ignoring an essential truth: Human beings are created and
therefore are indebted to our Creator, Allah, for everything they
possess. Those who consider their own body and surroundings,