English book · IN SEARCH OF TRUTH

Search For Truth

English book, p. 5

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

SEARCH FOR TRUTH who sought answers to these questions was a class of people known as the philosophers. However, despite thousands of years of effort, the philosophers could not arrive at any satisfactory answer to these questions. As a result, philosophy became a discipline of only intellectual debates, dissensions, and conflicts. Likewise, in the field of spirituality, people tried to reflect on these fundamental questions of life. However, they, too, met the same fate as that of philosophers. The primary reason for this was that the spiritualists sought truth through meditation in ‘the world of the heart’. However, they could obtain no success in this regard. The simple reason behind this is that the heart is just an organ for pumping blood. Therefore, the realisation or consciousness of truth was absent in the heart. If this is the case, how could those searching for it find it there? The same thing happened with science and its votaries. Knowledge of science acquired great importance with the advent of ‘modernity’. In the beginning, people believed that science would finally succeed in

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