PHILOSOPHY

~ 14 ~ might have provided a sound answer to the human dilemma. The main concern of philosophy was to make a unified picture of the world, including human life. But the long history of philosophy shows that this still remains an unfulfilled dream. The Encyclopaedia Britannica in its 27-page article on philosophy and its history admits that there seems to be no possibility of philosophical unification. The article concludes with this remark: In the contemporary philosophical universe, multiplicity and division still reign. (EB, Vol. 14:274 [1984]) Why this failure? This failure is not of a chance or intermittent nature, but seems to be a permanent feature of the philosophical approach to reality. The Qur’an has drawn our attention to this fact, saying: They put questions to you about the Spirit. Say: “The Spirit is at the command of my Lord and of knowledge you have been given only a little.” (17:85)