What is the role of religion in a person’s life? Is it meant to influence all aspects of one’s existence, and does it? Or should it have an exclusive compartment in one’s life, with no regard for and connection with its other parts?

Such questions, which frequently arise about religion, are due to a superficial study of the subject. If religion could be viewed in its true perspective, all such questions would cease to matter or simply disappear.

What really is religion? In its essence, religion is another name for a divinely-inspired life springing from realization of God. It is for the discovery of God to dominate one’s whole life. The discovery of the Creator by the creature, the meeting of the AII-Powerful by the powerless, is the greatest of all the discoveries that man can make. An event of such stunning intensity does not affect one’s life in a partial way; it transforms one’s whole being.

Religion is inherent in every action of the true believer just as dye is inherent in every drop of coloured water. The words and deeds of such a person bear the stamp of his faith. With the discovery of God grows a new personality which is reflected in every action. Religion and the person become inseparable.

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