The World is in Danger [Irfan Ahmad Khan]
Friday, February 16th, 2007Pseudo-religiosity is leading human civilization toward suicide
In the following few pages, an effort is made to workout an agenda for true religiosity. True religiosity, is seriously concerned with human destiny and it invites all conscientious people _ even those who have, apparently, rejected all religion _ to work together to save humankind. True religiosity is both progressive and authentic. Religion and Science are good friends.
Part I
What is the real issue?
I do not think there is war between the East and the West or between the “Muslim” World and the Non-Muslim World. Nor does there exist, in the real world, such an issue as “Clash between Two Civilizations” i.e. between Islam and the West _ as is some time very ignorantly proclaimed. Rather, the ideals and the higher values in Islam and the ideals and the higher values in the West are very much the same. It is so because Islam stands for the Divine Guidance revealed to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad and other messengers of God; while “the West” expresses the yearning, in modern times, of the human mind and spirit toward very similar higher concerns. The West as such is a movement which was initiated as an awakening in the geographical west, at a time when the followers of these messengers were failing in their duty to liberate humans from their mutual slaveries and to lead the world toward peace, prosperity and progress.
