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by G. A. Parwez
translated by Dr. Manzoor-ul-Haque
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE Pause and
reflect; there are numerous questions that start puzzling human mind right from the moment
the human babe draws upon the dawn of consciousness – what are the material things,
life, consciousness and the allied matters? What are Intuition, Revelation E’takaaf,
Zakaat, Human Personality and Must Alust? What is the prayer (Namaz) and how does it
differ from Salaat? What is the Destiny of Man? Are Good and Evil absolute? Is there any
suprasensuous source of knowledge for human counseling and directing? Is there any reality
behind the concept of Imam Mahdi? What is
the political system of Quran that has been hurled into the trashcan of history and how
does it help mould the human life today? What are the injunctions of fasting? What is the
purpose of Hajj in the social order of Islam? What does the Quran say of alms and charity?
And how
does the Quran solve today’s social and marriage problems? In more
recent times, fresh problems changing the mores and cores of life have cropped up –
race, gambling, betting – its various forms – drinking, mix of wine with
medicine, music, lottery, rockets’ tenuous argument for Ascension (M’eraaj),
historical interpretations and Islam, pornography, indecency, age, - its increasing and
decreasing – economic system producing a mishmash of confusion, and cunnings of human
reason, trepidation of the educated young – terrorism and escape – least
measures to stymie ones ambitions, avalanche of funds to be accumulated, offering baubles
and trinkets to make unlawful wide open and the like many more. Finally
what is wrong with our History – the History of Islam, the achievements made during
the First Era of Islam, the conspiracies of the foreign alliance against Islam, the
significance of National Monuments? What is the future of Muslim Nationalism? Where will
the romping with Deen, the System of Islam, lead us to in the comity of nations? What will come out
of the pestilence – pernicious, evil influence – of elections? Why is Revelation the need of the West? And what its future is
going to be? Right from
the publication of Tolu-e-Islam Magazine in Pakistan, from 1948 to 1985 numerous questions
were asked by the people in Pakistan and abroad. These were responded in the light of the
teachings of the Quran – and were published under the title of Quraani Faisley –
The Quranic Decisions – by Tolu-e-Islam Trust (Regd.) Lahore, Pakistan. Its English
rendering is here in the cyberspace. The sole aim of projecting this vision is that the
ultimate non-material basis of all life is eternal and reveals itself in variety and
change. A society based on such a concept of Reality must reconcile, in its life, the
categories of permanence and change. It must possess absolute principles to regulate its
collective life. But absolute principles when they are understood to exclude all
possibilities of change tend to immobilize what is essentially mobile in its nature. The
failure of the Europe in political and social sciences illustrates the former principle;
the immobility of Islam during the last five hundred years illustrates the latter. So the
Question-Answers on the incoming pages will replenish your mind and heart: To revitalize that the Quran is the criterion for judging
between truth and falsehood – everything that agrees with the Quran is correct and
that, which is in disagreement with it, is false To inculcate the Quranic Teachings for developing the vision
that reason alone is not enough to solve the problems of life – reason needs
Revelation, Wahee, just as eyes need the light of sun To garnish the stark fact that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh)
attained the pinnacle of beautiful character and conduct – foreign conspiracies
vitiated our history by alloying with it things that are a blot on the Messenger’s
escutcheon i.e. a stain on his honour To accept with conviction that the people of every era,
according to the requirements of their time, will have to compile the details of the law
in the light of the Quran by mutual consultation – this would be done in the light of
the immutable principles of the Quran; the details of law will keep changing according to
circumstances, but the principles of the Quran shall forever remain unalterable. It was
with this modality that the questions have been answered in the light of the Quran. It will be
in this way that the World will replenish with the light of the Nourisher. Dr. Manzoor-ul-Haque PAKISTAN |
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