Islam and Modern Life — Page 1
1 Foreword Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, as has been announced in the cards that were issued and has been repeated by Dr. Bishar just now, the subject of my address this evening is. This is a very wide subject. It therefore follows th at I shall touch upon only certain aspects of it. Some of them, I hope, fundamental aspects. Nevertheless, it will be for you then to apply the main ideas which I propose to submit to you to other aspects of the subject that you may have in mind. I do not know whether it is customary in the meetings here I have addressed to before, and at that time I was warned, in advance, but I do not know whether now it is customary for questions at the end of an address. But if at the end of the address you or some of y ou would be willing to spare the time and would wish to explore further some aspect of what I have said, I shall be at your disposal. Now the central thing that I wish to take up this evening, and when we talk of modern life, that is the aspect that will readily come to our minds, is that this is the era of science and technology. Or as some have described it, we have entered upon the at omic age. And that raises problems in almost all spheres of life. This very rapid change in recent years, the very rapid advance in recent years in matters of science and technology, has brought about some spectacular changes in ways of life. In addition t o having brought communities that only a matter of fifty years ago or a hundred years ago knew little of each other, into intimate contact with each other. The advance in respect of means of