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is this helplessness which leads him to pray to and seek
help from God.

18 Should we follow humanity or God?

hese are both different issues. We believe in God
Tbecause He is the Creator. Humanity is not a creator;
it is a social phenomenon. It is a known fact that nature
is an enormous reservoir of facts and knowledge and
according to science, man—in his limited lifetime—can
acquire only a partial knowledge of reality. If science has
a limited scope, then the question arises as to how should
one attain wisdom?

Let me take an example from the life of the Prophet
Muhammad. He was dealing with a grave situation in
Makkah where the Kabah, the most sacred place for
Muslims built by the Prophet Abraham as the House of
the One God had become, after a period of about two
thousand years, a house where more than three hundred
idols were placed. The mission of the Prophet Muhammad
was to revive the religion of the Prophet Abraham, and
the first course to follow should have been cleansing of
the Kabah from the hundreds of idols. But the Prophet
did not do so. It was divine wisdom due to which he
did not react for many years. This was because he had
realized that it was the idols that brought people from
the whole of Arabia to the Kabah for pilgrimage. The
Prophet Muhammad was able to de-link the presence of
idols from the gathering at the Kabah. The Prophet would
utilize this gathering as an audience and would preach

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