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WHAT IS THE NEED OF RELIGION?
There are many reasons why religion is needed for Mankind:-
(a) We know that man is a social animal. Every man depends upon millions of people
for his life and its necessities. Also we know that every society needs some laws to
prevent injustice and preserve the rights of every member of the society. But who is
the right authority to make the Law? One man (be he a monarch or a dictator)? No!
Because he, instinctively, will look, first of all, after his own interest. A group of
people (be it an aristocracy or democracy)? No! Because every one of them is
capable of wrong judgment; and a lot of wrong decisions do not add up to a right
decision.
(b) Also, it is apparent that no group of people disengage itself from self-interest. For
example, in colonial days the assemblies and councils of colonies were enacting
laws to suit the interest of the White rulers. Now, the same institutions (but with
different members) are making laws keeping in view the interest of the local
population. Selfinterest was, and still is, the key word of legislation in the
whole world.
(c) Moreover, no man or group of men is in a position to make a comprehensive law
based on perfect equity and justice.
So it is necessary that the laws should be made by some one who is superior to
man, who has nothing to lose or gain by that law and with WHOM every man has
equal relation. AND THAT ONE IS "ALLAH". Hence we need the religion
(d) Moreover, all the man-made laws and customs have a very serious defect: they
cannot stop crime. This defect makes their existence somewhat superfluous. A thief
enters an unoccupied house, in a remote village at dead of night for stealing some
valuables. He knows perfectly well that there is no representative of the government
for good many miles around the house. He feels perfectly safe from being detected.
Is there any law of government which can stop him from committing the crime? The
answer is, certainly, "NO".
No government can stop the said person from stealing, BUT RELIGION CAN.
Religion, true Religion as explained above, teaches that there is a God, Who knows
everything and sees everything; Who is Just and Virtuous Himself, and wants us to
be just and virtuous; that we are responsible for our deeds in His eyes, and we have
to give account of our deeds to Him after our death. If a person believes in it, then
(AND ONLY THEN) he can restrain himself from committing sins and crimes and
inflicting injustice upon other people.
Laws of government can control the external affairs of a man and even that only at
a time and place where its hands can reach. But the belief in God and religion
controls not only the external acts but hidden desires and inner thoughts also.
This control is not confined to any particular place or any limited time, because God
is Omnipresent and Omniscient
(e) To realize fully the unquestionable benefits which the society derives from the belief
in God and religion, try to think about the chaos and turmoil which the mankind will
certainly plunge into if the belief in God is put aside. There will not be any society.
Instead, there will be a multitude of people. In such atmosphere every individual is
at liberty to do whatever he wishes. He thinks there is no God and no life hereafter,
and he has come into being by the chance of a blind nature; and he also knows that
the span of life is very short. So he naturally will be overcome by the desire to enjoy
this life as much as possible without any regard to anything else. His only
consideration will be to avoid being caught red-handed or detected by the
government law. And whenever he will feel safe he will not stop at any crime to fulfil
his desire, how much henious that desire may appear to others.
Question: Even an atheist may lead a life which is morally as perfect as that of a follower
of religion. So what is the need of religion?
Answer: It is a fallacy, to think that the moral life of an atheist is without any obligation to
religion. Because those moral thoughts have been bestowed upon him by no other factor
but religion. Religious moral teachings have been ingrained in human mind for thousands
of years. They have been bestowed from father to son (heredity) and from friend to friend,
(environment). These moral values have become inseparable from his conscience. But
what is conscience? It is but the religious and moral thoughts which have come to him
from his religious forefathers, and now he cannot escape from them. Conscience is based
upon the moral teaching of religion. How can the conscience survive, when those
teachings of religion are routed out of the humanity as a whole?
Anybody who ponders deeply upon this point will come to the conclusion that no morality
can hold is ground, if separated from belief in God and religion.
Below I have attached the full book in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format for those who are interested in reading it.
Book: Need of Religion
Author: Maulana Syed Saeed Akhtar Rizvi
Pages: 10
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