This is a problem that needs much explanation especially since certain modern Muslim apologists, wanting to answer Christian charges against Islam and at the same time not being intellectually strong enough to state the case of Islam in its true perspective, have claimed that indeed Islam has no need of mysteries, miracles, original sin, and just about everything else which is 'supernatural' from the Christian point of view. Islam is presented as if its conception of man is the Cartesian rational man left to his own reason who, however, instead of becoming a ddst or agnostic as in the West somehow becomes a Muslim. This view, however, is not at all true because although Islam is based on the primordial nature of man and his intelligence rather than will which has become warped after his fall on earth, it nevertheless believes that revelation is absolutely necessary. Without the aid of God man cannot discover by himself the way of salvation, the 'Straight Path'.

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