he brought you into being from the earth, and has made you dwell in it .

he brought you into being from the earth, and has made you dwell in it ..." Holy Qur'an (11:81) "And do not make mischief in the earth after its reformation ..." Holy Qur'an (7:58) Islam has given man the right to enjoy the beauties and the adornments of life, and to make use of its good things.

"Say: Who has forbidden the adornment of Allah which He has brought forth for His servants, and the good provisions?" Holy Qur'an (7:32) By these practical and scientific measures, Islam protects the health of the body, provides man with physical happiness, keeps his natural right to live, and saves his sanity and energy from uselessness, from being completely lost and from the destruction imposed upon him by the ignorant programmes, the man- made laws and dogmatic theological calls.

Can Religion be Substituted? Can man reject religion and replace it by the discoveries and the knowledge to which he could attain in the fields of social organization, in morals and behaviour, and in ideological explanations? Would man be happy, dignified and comfortable if he took that as a substitute for religion? This must be studied carefully so as to find an objective and correct answer, since the advocates of ignorance have one answer, and the believers in Allah have another.

All the ignorants, notwithstanding their different materialistic and infidel philosophies, sects and secular trends, reject religion and advocate its replacement by man's scientific and theoretical achievements, with an argument based on a deformed idea and a disordered concept about the origin of religion, its message and aims - the concept which takes religion to be nothing but a mythical legend or an imagery created by a superstitious mind during the backward and primitive ages.

According to them in those ages man tried to interpret the appearance of the universe and life. Having failed to discover the scientific laws of nature and life, he attributed. that to an unknown creator. He saw the rain, observed the sunrise and the sunset, and discerned the growth of plants and animals, their multiplication, their birth and death; yet he did not know how those events happened, because he was ignorant of their scientific explanation.

He, therefore, invented an imaginary theory, fabricated by his illusions, telling of the existence of a god behind this physical existence, and of an unseen divine power that was behind the movement and direction of all these things.