Islam Rediscovered
25. Conclusion
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had come for the first time in human history to
build the most successful civilization on earth.
Events showed, however, that atomic power,
having assumed the form of the atomic bomb,
became a source of such great destruction as to
threaten the very existence of human civilization.
The truth is that prior to the knowledge explosion,
or the atomic explosion, man has been in need of a
reliable ideology to furnish him with a complete
interpretation of life, and instruct him as to the goal
of his existence and the direction of his actions and
how to exercise knowledge and power. The spread
of communism in the nineteenth century had given
man the false conviction that he had discovered the
perfect ideology that he had been seeking all along.
But, in 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union,
this false sense of conviction vanished into thin air.
In this new scenario, the world is experiencing an
ideological vacuum. Islam alone can fill this
vacuum for it is a religion of nature—a complete
and preserved guidebook handed down by God to
His Prophet.
