Islam and Peace
Islam in 21st Century
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ISLAM IN 21ST CENTURY
Today man is in search of a new ideology. Those
who can offer this new ideology to the modern man
will be the leader of the 21st century. F.H. Bradley
has termed this new ideology as ‘New Religion.’ By
this New Religion he actually meant unaltered
version of revealed religion. But probably the
concept of unaltered and altered was not known to
Bradley, otherwise he would have used the term
unaltered religion in place of ‘New Religion.’
As a matter of fact, the search of modern man is
nothing but a quest of Islam. It is a religion based
on the law of nature. It is free from any sort of
alteration as such it is the exponent of complete
truth. Those who are not acquainted with this, call
the feeling of their quest as ‘New Outlook,’ ‘New
Religion,’ ‘New Order,’ ‘New Revolution’ etc. etc.
Reaching at the end of 20th century, man is
confronted with a void – a void of thought. He is
disillusioned with his previous ideological base. He
is in search of a new and firm intellectual base to