Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 153
— Part I 152 entertainable argument in favour of God’s existence, he conceded. 11 This moral code forms part of the human subconscious, and not every person has the ability to comprehend it clearly. The Divine revelation vouchsafed to the last Law-bearing Prophet sa brought these teachings to light. Kant’s reasoning is a weighty one. His realisation of some imprint of the concept of God in every human being brings to mind a great Quranic revelation which speaks of the image of God being stamped onto man even before his creation. It formed part of the blueprint which was to govern and guide the course of human evolution. It says in the Quran: And when your Lord brings forth from Adam’s children, out of their loins — their offspring and makes them witnesses against their own selves by saying: 'Am I not your Lord?' They say, 'Yes, why not!' This He does lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection, 'We were surely unaware of this. ' (S u rah al-A‘r a f; Ch. 7: V. 173) This verse is a metaphorical illustration of how the belief in God has gone into the very making of man.