Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 711
FUTURE OF REVELATION many of the mainstream clergy believe. He will issue the call for a Holy War fighting all the non-Islamic governments of the world. . In this paroxysm of religious madness, religion itself would become the ultimate target. Sanity would take flight from this arena of imbecility, beseeching God to rescue religion from the hands of its rescuers. Without urgent remedial measures by Him, the Hindu, the Christian, the. Buddhist, the Zoroastrian, the Jew and the Muslim will all suffer alike. . No man with common sense would hold a brief for such senseless and irrational understanding of God's designs. Rationality and common sense must be granted their due role in the interpretation of religious prophecies and parables. The golden age of the ultimate unification of man could only be consummated if a single Reformer appeared in the name of God, in a single religion of His choice. This, the only rational solution of the problems confronting the religious world of the latter days, has been firmly rejected by the very people who needed it for their survival. They continue to cling, instead, to their empty vision of a golden age which is nothing but a mirage. . The above scenario is a genuine attempt to explain the self-contradictory position of each religion regarding the role it will play in the ultimate redemption of mankind. . They open the doors of hope and shut them themselves. . The case of the Muslims is only opposite in sequence. They begin to shut the doors by pronouncing the absolute finality of the Holy Prophets and no sooner have they done so than they begin to open them again. In reality, however, their stance remains unchanged. Hence the drama played on the. Muslim stage is essentially no different from the one played on the stages of other world religions. Despite declaring the total uncompromising finality of the Holy Prophetsa they 669