The man of the Holy Qur'an must know: From where has he come?

The man of the Holy Qur'an must know: From where has he come? Where is he going? Where is he at present? How should he be? What should he do? His weal and prosperity in this and the next world will be ensured only when he gives practical answers to these five questions correctly. To know from where he has come, man should know his Creator and to know his Creator, he should go deep into the world and man as His signs.

To know where he is going, he should reflect on and believe in what the Holy Qur'an has stated about Resurrection, torments of the Day of Judgement, recompensation and severe retribution which may in certain cases be eternal. He should believe that just as Allah is the point of the beginning of all existing things, He is also the point of their return. To know where he is, he should study the world system and the laws operating in it.

He should find out the position of man vis-a-vis other things and should rediscover himself. To know what he should be, he should acquire the knowledge of true human ways and manners and should build his habits and behaviour accordingly. To know what he should do, he should abide by a certain code of individual and social rules and regulations.

In addition to all this the man of the Holy Qur'an must have a belief in the existence of certain imperceptible and invisible things described by the Holy Qur'an itself as the 'Unseen', and believe that they are the channels through which the will of Allah operates in the universe. He must also know that Allah, the Almighty has never left man without Divine guidance. He raised a large number of the selected people as the Prophets, who conveyed His message to mankind.

The man of the Holy Qur'an looks at nature as a sign of Allah and at history as a real 'testing ground' which proves the accuracy of the teachings of the Prophets. So, that is the man of the Holy Qur'an, and these are some of the duties which have been prescribed by Islam for him. The Holy Qur'an has discussed so many subjects that it is not possible to enumerate all the topics discussed by it.

However at a cursory glance the following questions come to the view: * Allah, His essence, His oneness, His positive and negative attributes, that is the qualities which we should believe that He possesses and the qualities which we should believe that He is free from them. * The Hereafter, the Resurrection and the stages between death and Resurrection (Purgatory).