IN SEARCH OF TRUTH
English book, p. 8
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
‘Rediscovery of Religion’. Without this ‘rediscovery’, understanding religion’s true importance and meaning will be impossible. TRUTH: A STUDY If a man does not discover the truth in its absolute sense, by his very nature, he will continuously pursue his search until he finds the absolute truth. Some people argue that there is nothing like Absolute Truth. Everything is relative, they say. Every claim to truth is socially constructed. They claim that truth is subjective, i.e., each person has his own truth. Something that appears true to one person need not be accurate for someone else. In other words, they argue that truth is something relative; it is not something real. One can put it thus: ‘There is no full stop in truth, only commas.’ This way of thinking is entirely erroneous. There are no logical or rational grounds for this sort of hypothesis. In this world, everything that man accepts, he does so

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