Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 26
کفنی 26 ing the expression 4 (Kafa) indicated that this Surah comprises reference to the Divine attribute (Kafi), the Sufficient. When one hands himself over to God the. Excellent, then as the Provider of means, God, the Almighty, is sufficient for him and Satan can no more take hold of him. . WHAT IS SIN. If every human being were impure on account of hereditary sin, as Christians claim, then men would have inevitably faced perdition in spite of virtuous deeds and notwithstanding their entrusting themselves to God, the Great. But it does not so transpire, which goes to show clearly that sin is the crop of external influence and human nature is pure by itself. . God, advancing a supporting argument next, says: ربكم الله الذى يزجى لكم الفلك فى البحر لتبتغوا من فضله انه كان بكم رحيما i. e. , You regard sin a dangerous typhoon, a devastating calamity, and you think it is inherent in man and he cannot be freed from it. But God says, sin is nothing in itself. All this is conjecture. As an obvious example there is the sea. You see boats plying in it. (Steamships ply now carrying cargo from one country to the other. In former times sail boats were the vogue, which depended for their movement on wind). God says that boats are dependent on wind but wind turns at times into a typhoon when it exceeds a limit. . When sail boats used to ply, if it was proposed to the world. to stop the wind so that typhoons might be stopped, there would have been a universal outcry that typhoons were rare occurrences and, therefore, they should not be stopped, for in that event their trades would come to a standstill. If out of thousands of boats, one gets lost in the storm, the loss