Fazl-e-Umar — Page 285
Fazle Umar 285 doubts about the existence of God. In philosophy, it fell to Descartes (1596 –1650) to fight the rebellion against God during the Renaissance. However, a later generation of philosophers, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Sartre and Marx denied the existence of God altogether. The Tafseer Kabeer is a great work of Jihad against all secular philosophies. In the world of ideas, never in human history was a religious teaching faced by such a diverse blend of ideas – from philosophers, scientists, psychologists, sociologists, historians, astronomers, and also from all other religions. Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] beat the clear favourites, by highlighting what the Qur’an had to teach about their new discoveries. In psychology there was Freud, in biology there was Darwin, in theology there was Wherry, Noldeke, Rodel and William Muir. These personalities were renowned throughout the world and were created to attack the Holy Qur’an. If the Holy Qur’an is the word of God, it is but fitting that we should have derived newer and newer knowledge from it so that spiritual science should have kept pace with natural science. The errors of natural science, its deviations from truth and its exaggerations, should have been corrected, whenever and wherever necessary, by new knowledge drawn from the Holy Qur’an. When natural knowledge seemed contrary to the teachings of the Holy Qur’an, tending to cast doubt on its truth, we should have had assurances from the Holy Qur’an itself that the teaching of the Divine Book is rational and right, and the doubts raised by natural knowledge are due only to lack of reflection. Unlike some purists that support one team and only one team, Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] did not totally condemn everything outside Islam. He not only brought death to all false ideologies but also gave life to those parts that were rational and sup- ported by the Holy Qur’an. Hence, Hadhrat Musleh Mau’ood [ra] truly deserved to don the tunic of champions as he gave the spiritual sciences a new lease of life through the Holy Qur’an. The weapons lay in the Holy Qur’an all along but there was none to wield them.