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24 Islam<br />
irreligious<br />
Islam.<br />
men. There are no atheists in<br />
A man who, under the influence of<br />
English secular education, lightly declared<br />
that he had grown beyond so childish a<br />
superstition,<br />
which however he declared<br />
to be " good for women and children,"<br />
changed countenance while we discussed<br />
the religious education of his wife. He<br />
could not rid himself easily of the convictions<br />
of his childhood, as the grave face<br />
and reverent voice bore witness.<br />
But, the Will of God is far more<br />
present in the thought of the Muslim than<br />
is God Himself. God touches his life<br />
through His Will only. God is<br />
apart ;<br />
seeing, knowing and judging indeed, but<br />
apart in His absolute sovereignty,<br />
in the<br />
inexorable way<br />
in which He carries out<br />
His Purpose. We have, therefore, as a<br />
corrolary to the teaching regarding the Will,<br />
the teaching of the pitiful helplessness of<br />
man in His Hand. God may crush me ;<br />
He can do it ; I can say nothing. In