Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 211
SECULAR VIEWPOINTS EXAMINED from the growth of idolatrous superstition. It is a figment of the sociologists' wayward fancy. . History does not produce any evidence to support the theory of progressive transformation of polytheism to monotheism. No transitional stages are witnessed in which communities moved from worshipping many gods to the worship of One. On the contrary, it is the sudden and abrupt appearance of one great man which sets into motion a train of events causing great upheavals and tribulations, requiring enormous sacrifices from those who chose to follow him. ✓HE HOLY QURAN rejects this hypothesis. It categorically proclaims the opposite to be true. All the major. T religions of the world invariably began their journey with belief in Unity. The proposition of evolution can neither be proved with reference to history nor to the working of human psyche. . The character of prophets is like an open book which defies allegations of hidden intentions and secret designs. . There is no phase in their earlier life before their claim to prophethood which could justify the accusation that they had planned to fake their prophetic claim at a later stage. . No such evidence is at all found in the lives of the great advocates of God's Unity, like Abrahamas, Mosesas and. Prophet Muhammadsa. . By the time of Abrahamas, the lofty belief of Noahªs in the Unity of God was already degenerated by his distant progeny into the earthly myths of many gods. Abrahamas once again launched a gigantic struggle for the restoration of Unity. It prevailed at last, and the torch of Unity was held aloft by his progeny and others who followed him for many a generation to come. . The old fateful trend of decadence set in eventually with the same disastrous consequences. Within a few 207