Islam - Its Meaning for Modern Man — Page 133
133 The certainty of being on the right path, which alone can enable a person to devote all his faculties and capacities all the time to winning the pleasure of God through service to his fellow beings, in the face of every kind of opposition and persecution, can be achieved only through such an assurance. In today’s circumstances, experience of that kind is even more necessary than it has been in the past, in face of the temptation to treat everything as resulting solely from man’s own effort, skill, and knowledge. Man’s contributions are indeed essential for all progress and achievement, but they are only part of the means and not the source of the beneficence which alone makes human effort worthwhile and human life a glorious bounty of God.