Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 761
EPILOGUE disciple of Nietzsche, forever does away with the need of. Divine guidance. Maudoodi, a cross-breed of Pauline and. Bahai wedlock, does away with prophethood lest its denial should make it a precursor to the curse of God. So between these two stalwarts nothing is left of prophethood or revelation leaving Islam emptied of all hope. The real import of their philosophy could not be summed up better than in the following words of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, one of the greatest Urdu poets of modern times: اجنبی خاک نے دُھندلا دئے قدموں کے سُراغ ے رو ایاغ مینا کو منتقل کرلو گل کرو شمعیں بڑھا یہاں کوئی نہیں ، کوئی نہیں آئے گا کواڑوں کو خواب کواڑوں. Alien dust has obscured every footprint. . Extinguish the lamps and take away the goblets and pitchers of wine. . Shut your sleepless doors and lock them up. . None will come! No one will ever come!!. LAS prophecy and revelation, the very soul and spirit. A of every living religion are thus expunged from the body of Islam. A zombie-like existence is all that is left into the bargain. An exasperating, meaningless semblance of life! Why can they not read the message writ large on the wall of history?. Remove revelation altogether from religious experience, and faith would be reduced to myths and legends. Do away with Divine revelation, and the spiritual life would forthwith lose its meaning, and religion its purpose. . Revelation enlightens belief, illuminates the soul and blows the breath of life into faith. In the pitch darkness of materialism, when despondency is compounded by atheism, 719