The Story of A Leaf on the Branch
For me Islam, the faith I belong to, means piety first of all. Whenever I talk about thecentral features of Islam, I always try to interpret this faith above all as a great universalcall to piety, to surrender to God. And piety is not some sort of a sacred hobby forkilling boredom or a holy recreation for its own sake. Piety is a call to morality and thegood. In this limitless world we cannot make a limitless number of steps. But piety andmorality teach us that the steps we make should be along the path of the good andbe moral.
The Story of A Leaf on the Branch
For me Islam, the faith I belong to, means piety first of all. Whenever I talk about thecentral features of Islam, I always try to interpret this faith above all as a great universalcall to piety, to surrender to God. And piety is not some sort of a sacred hobby forkilling boredom or a holy recreation for its own sake. Piety is a call to morality and thegood. In this limitless world we cannot make a limitless number of steps. But piety andmorality teach us that the steps we make should be along the path of the good andbe moral.The entire Qur’an is a sublime Divine saga about how behind this visible, enormouslylarge world there lies moral assurance, the eternal foundation, the Source to whichin the end everything will return. In a way, piety is an obligation to watch over man’smorality, to watch over constant remembrance of God, that omnipresent basis andtexture of the world, that pulse of the world. On the other hand, piety and moralityremind us of the man’s primordial essence, which is that he/she is God’s creature.
