Islam - Its Meaning for Modern Man — Page 167
167 may be enabled to regulate their lives beneficently in all spheres. Thus, equipped with his own inherent faculties and capacities appropriate to, and adequate for, the purpose of achieving his object in life; with Divine guidance available at all stages, adequate to his needs; and with the whole of the universe subjected to his service, man has through Divine beneficence been placed in the most favourable position for the complete fulfilment of his life and for the achievement of its goal and purpose. It is a glorious prospect. A host of questions may be raised with regard to the nature of good and evil; man’s propensity toward, and the likelihood of his falling into, evil; the chances and means of his retrieving himself and working his way back to beneficence; and with regard to the problems, real or fancied, encountered in connection therewith. The Quran deals with all these questions, and it does so with indubitable relevance for modern man.