Towards Annihilation

Towards Annihilation

1987 12 December 4 Towards Annihilation (290) “Nuclear conflict would cause as much damage as World War II every second. Survivors, if any, would live in despair amidst the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide!

The greater part of the world’s wealth is spent on defence. According to a statement made by the President of the World Bank, Mr. A.W. Clausen in 1984, the affluent countries would spend one thousand billion dollars in the course of the following year on either the manufacture or the import of arms. (The Times of India, 7 December, 1984).

We are left wondering what logic or what humanity there is in expenditure on armaments, given the casualty list of the first and second world wars. In the First World War 10 million people lost their lives and 20 million were seriously incapacitated. No lesson obviously having been learnt form this, the Second World War killed off fifty million people and maimed another 90 million for life. The destruction of property was estimated to run into billions of dollars.

Although the world has seen no repetition of a war on that scale in the intervening period, there have been a number of minor wars whose death toll, according to Moscow’s News Times, has mounted to ten millions, with colossal amounts of property destroyed.

The former U.S. President, Jimmy Carter, in a televised farewell speech, which he made on the 15th of January 1981, warned his countrymen of atomic warfare, which seemed to him to be a certainty, sooner or later. In the event of an atomic war, the very first few hours would bring the annihilation of as many people as had been killed in all the known wars of human history. “Nuclear conflict would cause as much damage as World War II every second. Survivors, if any, would live in despair amidst the poisoned ruins of a civilization that had committed suicide! (The Times of India, 16 January, 1981.)

Two eyes that will not see hell-fire

1987 12 December 4 Two eyes that will not see hell-fire (33) The Prophet said: “Two eyes will not be touched by hell-fire: the eye that cries for fear of God, and the eye that spends the night keeping watch for the cause of God