The Prophet Muhammad A simple Guide to his Life
Prophetic Guidance for the Modern Age
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The nineteenth century saw the rise of socialism,
which acquired the status of a complete philosophy
of life as expressed by the ideology of Karl Marx (d.
1883). This ideology, initially given wide credence,
cast its spell over a large number of the world’s
intellectuals. In 1917, on the basis of this ideology,
Marx’s supporters established a full-fledged
government in Russia, which later expanded to
become a great empire – the Soviet Union. From
that time right into the middle of the twentieth
century, Marxist socialism was the dominant world
ideology. The American economist, John Kenneth
Galbraith, claimed that Marx himself had achieved
greater popularity in present times than all other
historical figures, including Muhammad. The
Marxist magic was undone only when the Soviet
Union itself disintegrated in 1991.
By the grace of God, about 35 years before the fall of
the Soviet Union, by delving deeper into realities, I
was able to come to the conclusion that Marxism as
a philosophy was entirely baseless. After a detailed
study of the subject, I wrote a book titled:
Marxism
Tarikh jis ko rad kar chuki
(Marxism rejected by
history), which was published in 1959 by Maktaba
