Islam and Peace
Islam in 21st Century
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king was accepting defeat. It was hard for them to
believe. But the truth dawned upon them and they
realized that their king too was a human being and
not the incarnation of god.
This incident proved to be more devastating than
the scars of atom bombs on Japan. The bombs had
destroyed two of its cities temporarily but the crack
in the faith eternally changed the whole inner
personality of Japanese. The new generation of
Japan is suffering from acute frustration. It has
spiritually lost its source of confidence. The
Japanese are in search of a new god today and this
search is their most important issue at hand.
This state of affair, more or less, is being faced by
other peoples all over the world. Everyone has lost
his traditional god and everyone, consciously or
unconsciously, is looking out to find a new god to
substitute this void.
This is not a chance happening but a real one. It is
so because religion is not an externally imposed
thing. Religion is the inner urge of a human being
and so imbued in his nature that it cannot be
separated from his personality. Research in the field
