Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 115
— Part I 114 they were no longer worthy of being mentioned as players on the stage of life. The Holy Quran mentions many cases of such people who ignored the demands of justice. This provides a warning for the generations to come. This system of warning extends to the entire spectrum of human faith and belief. At the highest point, faith can be summed up as a total dedication to the Oneness of God. At the lowest level, there is the day to day pattern of one’s conduct, which in the case of the true believer distinguishes him from the non- believers. At this level of the day to day conduct of a believer, the Holy Prophet sa admonishes him to develop the habit of removing all potential dangers to man. Elaborating this point further he sa mentions many such articles on pathways and roads that could in any way be injurious to passers-by. According to the Prophet’s sa warning, if a believer does not remove for instance, a nail, a thorn or any other similar article which could hurt an unwary passer-by, he would be deficient by that much in his faith. The path to God is also fraught with similar dangers, smaller in the beginning but gradually assuming more dangerous proportions. It is an interesting area of Islamic instruction, a study of which helps to widen and deepen one’s understanding of Islam as a whole. Speaking of the same on another occasion, Prophet Muhammad sa