On the Search for Well-Being by Henry J. Bruton

Author:Henry J. Bruton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780472024193
Publisher: The University Of Michigan Press

The Role of Religion

Religion is a significant component of a society's traditions and historical context. There is no doubt that the religious convictions and religious environment of a community are relevant to the establishment and acceptance of the Idea of Progress and to the emergence of entrepreneurs as carriers of this idea and to people accepting that well-being can be enhanced. There is also no doubt that our understanding of the exact content of this relevance is hardly clear. I note a few points however to try to give a bit more support to the preceding arguments.

The term Islam is the Arabic word for submission or obedience. The Holy Koran has numerous references to people as the servant, even slaves, of Allah. In Sura 51 (of the translation by J. M. Rodwell in Everyman's Library) one reads,

I have not created Djinn and men, but that they should worship me:

I require not sustenance from them, neither require I that they feed me:

Verily, God is the sole sustainer: possessed of might; the unshaken.

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