PLAGIARISM AND THE END OF HUMAN HISTORY

PLAGIARISM AND THE END OF HUMAN HISTORY Divine Laws or Scientific Laws DOOMSDAY will bring human history to an end, marking the transition to the beginning of another. There are several indicative Hadith (words of the prophet) which predict many instances before Doomsday. Some have come to pass in present times. One such Hadith can be understood by an incident that was reported in some news publications under the headline, ‘American journalist suspended for plagiarism.’ The suspended Indo-American journalist was CNN host, Newsweek columnist, and editor-at-large of TIME magazine, Fareed Zakaria. He was suspended for a week in August 2012 by TIME and CNN while they investigated charges of plagiarism. Plagiarism is the imitation and use of another’s language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions and representing them as one’s own work. It was alleged that the suspended journalist had copied several passages from an article published in the New Yorker magazine by historian Jill Lepore of Yale University. Copying someone’s idea without acknowledging the original author is a crime in the literary world. Plagiarism can be taken to a higher level and looked at in a larger connotation. It goes beyond the simple act of an individual copying another’s work. There is a much larger plagiarism happening which none seem to be complaining about—the plagiarism of God’s creation by humans and claiming it as their original work. The predictions that have occurred are an admonition and warning to mankind that the Lord of the Universe will soon terminate human civilization for the acts of super-plagiarism humans have been practicing. Not Acknowledging the Creator Nature follows the divine laws ordained by its Creator. On reaching boiling temperature water transforms into steam, a source of energy that is put to various uses. Man did not invent steam; he only discovered this law of nature and used it to his advantage. Similarly, all technical developments (steam ships, cars, airplanes, photography, The entire history of modern technical development is nothing but a case of super-plagiarism.