The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
The Qur’an: The Book of God
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with the theory of evolution, which demands that
there should be a cause for everything that happens.
Such causes cannot be found, with the result that
the theory of evolution is left without an
explanation, – in an intellectual vacuum, one might
say, while the same cannot be said of the
explanation of life offered by the Qur’an.
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
The same is true of political philosophy. According
to the 1984 edition of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica:
‘Political philosophy and political conflict have
evolved basically around who should have power
over whom.’ (14/697).
For five thousand years, eminent human brains
have addressed their efforts toward finding an
answer to this question. Yet they still have not been
able to produce what Spinoza termed a ‘scientific
base’ on which to form a coherent political
philosophy.
Altogether, there are more than twelve schools of
political thought, which fall into two broad
categories: despotism and democracy. The first is
