The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
Prophetic Guidance for the Modern Age
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and scientific level. Man is born with a feeling of
curiosity. Instinctively he feels the urge to find out
the reality of things. That is why philosophy has
always existed in rudimentary form since the very
advent of man in the world. However, philosophy
took a proper and organized form three thousand
years ago in Greece. Subsequently in various
academic and intellectual centres, philosophic
discussion and debates were engaged in all over the
world.
After a continuous effort for five thousand years,
philosophy has not been able to give any
meaningful concepts to man. During this long
period of time the strivings of great minds have
ended only in intellectual confusion and dissension
(intishar).
On the other hand, science gave man,
within a period of just 200 years, so many new ideas
that we find it difficult to enumerate them. It is
science alone which has led man to the age of
modern civilization.
What is the reason for this difference? The reason
may be traced to the fact that science recognized the
limitations of knowledge and, by accepting this
