Islam - Its Meaning for Modern Man — Page 359
359 in the Mercy of Allah; therein will they abide” (3:107 ⎯ 108). Once mankind turns to the One God in sincere repentance, He will lead it out of the shadows and the darknesses into the light. He will guide man along the paths of peace: “O people of the Book, there has come to you Our Messenger, who unfolds to you much of what you had hidden of the Book, and passes over much. There has come to you indeed, from Allah, a Light and a clear Book. Thereby does Allah guide those who seek His pleasure, along the paths of peace, and leads them out of every kind of darkness into the light by His will, and guides them along the right path” (5:16—17). Again: “Allah is the friend of those who believe: He brings them out of every kind of darkness into light. Those who believe not, their friends are the transgressors, who bring them out of light into every kind of darkness” (2:258). All knowledge proceeds from God. Man encompasses only so much of it as God pleases. “He knows what is before them and what is behind them; and they encompass nothing of His knowledge save what He pleases. His knowledge extends over the heavens and the earth; and the care of them burdens Him not. He is the Most High, the Great” (2:256). He Who has, in due order, vouchsafed to man the knowledge of the properties of the atom and of the principles of fission and fusion, surely has it in His