Islam and Peace
Islam in 21st Century
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the fact that no religion, except Islam, is reliable in
its present form.
Subsequently a new ‘religion’ emerged in the guise
of materialism. Its philosophy was that every thing
that really exists is material in nature. This breeded
the outlook of achieving maximum materialistic
gains in practical life. It propagated the theory that
materialistic acquisitions were the only source of
man’s happiness.
But this ideology failed both at the level of thought
and practice. At the level of thought this failure is
reflected in the limitations of science. Extensive
researches and studies were carried out in various
fields of science with the hope of discovering the
ultimate realities. But these proved to be hopeless
endeavours. The instrumentalities of science were
miserably ineffective and inadequate to unveil the
ultimate reality of existence. Sir James Jeans
endorses this view in the following words:
Physical science sets out to study a world of matter
and radiation and finds that it cannot describe or
picture the nature of either, even to itself. Photons,
electrons and protons have been found as
