Culture of Heedlessness
English book, p. 20
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
culture’, ‘modern culture’, ‘consumer culture’, ‘entertainment culture’, ‘secular culture’, ‘Western culture’, and so on. However, properly speaking, a more appropriate name for it is just one: the culture of forgetfulness. On a vast scale, this culture has put human beings into complete heedlessness of God and forgetfulness of the purpose of life. As a result, today’s man is engrossed in different types of engagements. In this way, he does not find the opportunity to even think of The Truth. In the ancient past, man had many free moments. He used to spend those moments in search of meaning. He used to contemplate the reality of things. He used to try to understand issues that were beyond the external world. However, the artificial activities of today’s world have enticed men so strongly towards them that few people now spare time to contemplate the more meaningful questions of life. One of the many questions about human life is: How can one fulfill the material needs of life? In previous ages,

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