God’s Creation Plan
English book, p. 318
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
phase after death in eternal Paradise. This complementary pair is present in the theistic view of the universe, but it is absent in the atheistic view. The Failure of Idealism All philosophers and thinkers have considered the existing world to be eternal. They believed that someday, within this very existing world, we will create our desired world. Concepts of an ideal society, ideal state, and ideal system were born under this thought. All such thinkers were captivated by these concepts until their last days. But they were unable to achieve this ideal in this world. For people, civilization was the interpretation of this human dream. After the industrial advancements, people thought that civilizational progress would eventually lead them to a point where they could build their paradise in this existing world. However, this notion turned out to be entirely false. The End of the World After studying the laws of nature, Sir Isaac Newton (d. 1727), the founder of modern science, predicted in 1704 that the current world would end in 2060 (Times of India, June 18, 2007). All scientists worldwide declare, based on pure observations, that global warming has made the end of the world inevitable. Further progress of civilization is no longer possible here. Alvin Toffler’s book ‘Future Shock’ was first published in 1970. In this book, Toffler stated that the world was moving from the Industrial Age into the Super Industrial Age. The

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