Islam Rediscovered
1. Search for Truth
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Many people had pinned their hopes on science
providing them with the superior life they had
sought for so long. But after more than two
hundred years, it has dawned upon recent
generations that science has fallen very far short of
fulfilling man’s hopes and aspirations, even in the
material sense. Now it has been generally
acknowledged that, although science has many plus
points for human betterment, it has many minus
points as well.
Science gave us machines, but along with them it
also gave us a new kind of social problem:
unemployment. Science gave us comfortable motor
cars but at the same time it polluted the air, making
it difficult for human beings to inhale fresh air, just
as with the rise of modern industry, there came the
pollution of life giving water. Production may have
been speeded up, but at the cost of adversely
affecting our whole social structure.
If the object of science was to provide man with the
answer to his search for truth it had obviously
failed. If the search for truth was not within the
province of science, there was no reason for it to
