Throughout every period of human history the call toward God has had one
nature. Its purpose is Islam, which means to bring human beings into submission
to God, to free them from servitude to other human beings so that they may devote
themselves to the One True God, to deliver them from the clutches of human
lordship and man-made laws, value systems and traditions so that they will
acknowledge the sovereignty and authority of the One True God and follow His law
in all spheres of life. The Islam of Muhammad-- peace be on him--came for this
purpose, as well as the messages of the earlier Prophets. The entire universe is
under the authority of God, and man, being a small part of it, necessarily obeys the
physical laws governing the universe. It is also necessary that the same authority
be acknowledged as the law-giver for human life. Man should not cut himself off
from this authority to develop a separate system and a separate scheme of life. The
growth of a human being, his conditions of health and disease, and his life and
death are under the scheme of those natural laws which come from God; even in
the consequences of his voluntary actions he is helpless before the universal laws