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Interpretation of Human History

English book, p. 33

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Negative Interpretation of History thinking about history when their view of history does not appear to be meaningful as per their assumptions. These words of one researcher, “In this world everything is beautiful except man,” also reflect the same negative view of history. This opinion is also the result of setting up a wrong standard. The truth of the matter is that the human world is far more beautiful than the rest of the world. Man constitutes the purpose of the creation of the universe, then how is it possible that he should not be beautiful? The reason for this incongruous opinion is that while observing the material world, writers found beauty at the individual level yet failed to find the same beauty in the human world at a collective level. According to the Creator’s plan, there is a difference between the human world and the material world. The reason being that the non-human world requires a collective discipline because it is not designed for the purpose of test, rather it is meant as a support to the human world. This goal cannot be achieved without maintaining a collective discipline. On the contrary, man’s case is seen at the individual level. What is desired here is individual beauty, rather than total beauty. In the human world, each individual is being tested separately. He has been

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