The Story of A Leaf on the Branch

Year 2015, Issue: 1, 13 - 20, 30.12.2015

Enes Karıc

Abstract

For me Islam, the faith I belong to, means piety first of all. Whenever I talk about the

central features of Islam, I always try to interpret this faith above all as a great universal

call to piety, to surrender to God. And piety is not some sort of a sacred hobby for

killing boredom or a holy recreation for its own sake. Piety is a call to morality and the

good. In this limitless world we cannot make a limitless number of steps. But piety and

morality teach us that the steps we make should be along the path of the good and

be moral.

Keywords

islam, islami araştırmalar

The Story of A Leaf on the Branch

Abstract

For me Islam, the faith I belong to, means piety first of all. Whenever I talk about the

central features of Islam, I always try to interpret this faith above all as a great universal

call to piety, to surrender to God. And piety is not some sort of a sacred hobby for

killing boredom or a holy recreation for its own sake. Piety is a call to morality and the

good. In this limitless world we cannot make a limitless number of steps. But piety and

morality teach us that the steps we make should be along the path of the good and

be moral.

The entire Qur’an is a sublime Divine saga about how behind this visible, enormously

large world there lies moral assurance, the eternal foundation, the Source to which

in the end everything will return. In a way, piety is an obligation to watch over man’s

morality, to watch over constant remembrance of God, that omnipresent basis and

texture of the world, that pulse of the world. On the other hand, piety and morality

remind us of the man’s primordial essence, which is that he/she is God’s creature.

Keywords

Qur’an, islam

References

• Qaaf, 50:16.