So if you wish to live happily and rationally...

So if you wish to live happily and rationally, attach your heart only to beauties that are imperishable; try to limit your desires and hold duty in higher esteem than all else. Seek only those things that do not violate the law of morality, and accustom yourself to losing things without distress. Accept nothing, unless your conscience permits you. If you do all of this, you will surely be happy, and not become over attached to anything on ear th".

Rousseau was not a Muslim but was inspired by Islamic philosophy. A man of this thinking can command his people to bring revolution. Rousseau's philosophy motivated the people of his time that led to the French Revolution. Now let us point out some of the discernible benefits of the true religion. Religion imparts a consciousness of the self-esteem. From Islamic point of view, all human beings are born as Muslims, it is their parents who make them Hindus, Christians, Jews or pagans.

There are more than 2 millions kinds of living creatures and out of them men are the most supreme beings. The first and foremost duty of man is to know its rank and status in the world of creation. It is then, he can maintain his position and can go fur ther in his evolutionary growth and development. Quran and hadith are the only reliable source of knowing the origin of mankind.

It is important to note that Quran has given a special emphasis to reveal the real position of man for his self-recognition. Announcement of Divine Deputyship. Allah Subhanu taala has appointed man as His vicegerent on the ear th. Quran says: "It is He who has appointed you vicegerent on the earth and exalted some of you in rank above others, so that He may test you by means of what he has given you." (6:165) The coronation ceremony of man.

Allah arranged a special coronation ceremony in which the entire existing creatures of that time were asked to attend it. The participants who were mostly the angels, were then ordered by Allah Subhanu taala, to bow down before Adam- the symbolic representative of mankind. Quran says; "Behold; your Lord said to the angels: I am about to create Man, from sounding clay from mud molded in.