The Concepts of Worship and Viceregency on Earth

The Concepts of Worship and Viceregency on Earth​

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The Qur’anic statement,

“To God we belong and to God is our return”

(2:156)

represents the Islamic map of life. It is an entire way of seeing and responding to the world, where life and every particle of it takes on direction, significance, and purpose when God is the beginning and the end.