Interpretation of Human History

“The age of religious and metaphysical conjectures concerning the destiny of human affairs had, in their opinion, come to a close.” (1974: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 8, p. 962) In other words, it means that for modern historians, the era of interpretation of human destiny, in the light of religion and metaphysics, is now over. This is undoubtedly baseless. It is as unscientific as saying, ‘the age of God is over’, or ‘the revelation of the Prophet was just a poetic experience’, or that ‘there is no basis for religion’, that it was only a social phenomenon and so on.