Islam - Its Meaning for Modern Man — Page 131
131 beneficent adjustments in their lives and to determine the fact and measure of progress in all spheres (42:18). The rule of conduct should be to weigh and adjust all factors in justice and neither to transgress nor to fall short of the Divine measure (55:8-10). This would help establish human relations on a basis of justice and along beneficent lines (57:26). As stated, however, revelation is not confined to its main purpose of conveying or interpreting Divine law and guidance to mankind. Through acceptance of the law and the guidance (i. e. faith) and conformity thereto (i. e. righteous action), a person begins to have experience of individual revelation; or, in other words, he begins to enjoy direct communion with God. This revelation becomes the means of fulfilment of the highest spiritual needs and yearnings of man. In default of direct communion with God through different forms of revelation ⎯ vivid dreams of a certain type, clear visions, verbal communications ⎯ there could be no certainty for man that he was progressing along the path that leads to God. There is little comfort in the assurance that if we would regulate our lives in accordance with the dictates and values inculcated by our respective faiths we would witness and experience the beneficent consequences thereof in the Hereafter. From the Hereafter, once we reach it, there is no return (21:96). That is a truth of tremendous significance and