To understand the essence of the CHANGE, one must understand the relationship between man and God.
The God is the Creator; to Him alone therefore belongs the kingdom and He is the only sovereign. To Him alone, therefore, as his only Lord and Master, man must submit his entire being.
God is the only true Provider. It is He who has bestowed on man such faculties and capabilities as seeing, hearing, thinking and articulating - attributes which man cannot live without, but which he cannot create for himself. It is He who has made available the resources of the external world which man may discover, exploit and develop but, again, cannot create.
MAN’s GREATEST NEED:
Yet surely man's greatest need is to know how to live his life so as to fulfill successfully the purpose of his creation; how to relate himself to his Creator, to his own self, to his fellow human beings and to everything around him.
To Him alone he must therefore turn to seek guidance. For there is no one apart from or beside Him who can truly provide answers to man's eternal questions or is capable of guiding him. All else can only be speculation and conjecture. And why should the One who has provided even for man's most trivial material needs not also have provided for his more important moral and spiritual needs?
It was to provide for this greatest human need that God sent His Prophets from amongst men in all ages and to all nations, bringing them the light of the divine guidance revealed to them. Among them were Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. And Muhammad was the last of them, in no way different or new (May God bless all of them).
'He has laid down for you the Way that He entrusted to Noah, and that we have revealed to you, and that we entrusted to Abraham, Moses and Jesus. Establish fully the Way and follow not different ways' (Qur’an - 42: 13).
MAN’s RELATIONSHIP:
Man's relationship to God is submitting to Him by following His will and guidance as brought by His prophets. But this submission must be total and all-embracing.
No part of his life can be exempt from the need of divine guidance or from the writ of divine sovereignty. God and His lordship and sovereignty are indivisible; and so is man's life in its submission to Him. It would indeed be an imperfect God who could only be experienced or related to in the realm of the spirit or the provision of material needs like one's daily bread-a God unconcerned, uncaring or incompetent to help man in the more arduous and complex task of living his life.
Him he worships; Him he invokes; Him he depends upon; Him he trusts; Him he seeks; and, equally important, Him he obeys. Man has been given the freedom to reject God; but, once having accepted Him, he must follow His guidance. He is not free to follow one part of it and ignore another, or to seek guidance from sources other than God. Denial of part is denial of the whole.
The act of total submission to God in no way diminishes human dignity, freedom and responsibility. Indeed, in submitting to God, all the chains and shackles of every form of serfdom, servility and bondage are broken, whether they are to other men, to ideas, to nature, to man- made objects or to institutions. For before the affirmation of One God must come the forsaking of every false god.
More importantly, total submission to God elevates man to the state of vice-regency, whereby he is accorded the highest place on earth by being endowed with reason, articulation, volition, freedom and responsibility.
Source: The Way to GOD (Book)
