The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
Qur’an: The Voice of God
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also be vested with military and legislative powers?
Karl Marx’s analysis was that the system of
ownership was flawed by jealousy and the
opportunities it gave for outright plunder.
According to him, such social defects would
disappear in a communist society. ‘Now, tell me,’ I
asked my friend, ‘was Karl Marx correct in thinking
so?’ ‘Certainly not,’ he replied, ‘The idea of
accountability in the Hereafter is the only thing in
this world that can cleanse a man of cruel and
selfish tendencies.’ ‘That is the real answer to the
problem,’ I said. ‘For Karl Marx’s self-made theory
resulted in even greater oppression and cruelty than
in the days when political and economic powers
were shared by the Czars and the capitalists. Now,
under the communist system, the powers of Czars
and capitalists have all been rolled into one, and it
is the common man who suffers.’
All those philosophers who have attempted –
without God – to solve the riddle of the Universe
have fallen into the same pitfalls as Marx. As to
their thinking, one is struck by how such great
intellects could produce such infantile suggestions.
They are like so many blind people, trying,
