HISTORY OF WITHOUTS

There are some who dispute about God without having any knowledge or guidance, or any enlightening Book. (22: 8) This verse tells us that the reason for the failure in human science is people's failure to understand human life. They have tried to build the whole framework of existence without guidelines. This is the sole reason for human science not being developed. For, in the absence of guidelines, man will fail to find the starting point for his actions. And such a journey, can never reach its destination. Unawareness of the Creation Plan of God Only the engineer of a complex machine can provide a manual for its proper functioning. The same is true of our world. The present world has been built by God in accordance with a creation plan. Man needs to understand this creation plan for the proper construction of his life. Any concept developed without understanding the creation plan of the Creator will go awry and will not be in accordance with the actual state of affairs. And any plan which goes against reality is destined to fail. We learn from the Book of God, that God has built this world for the purpose of putting man to the test. Here, man’s relationship with this world is akin to that of a student in an examination hall. A student comes to the examination hall so that he may take the requisite test and prove his ability to deserve a place in the world outside the examination hall. Similarly, this world is a place to take the divine test. Man has to qualify in this test to deserve God’s eternal rewards in the world after death. Man must learn the creation plan of God from His Divine Book—the Quran—and build his life by following the guidelines set forth therein. Those who do so will be successful and those who fail to do so will be adjudged as failures. The Building of an Ideal Life The famous Greek Philosopher, Plato, was born about 2500 years ago in Greece. His goal was to form an ‘ideal state’ in Greece. He presented a model of this state in his book, The Republic. He thought that the building of an ideal state was fully possible. Plato, being a teacher of The Quran being a book of God, its actual role is to provide trustworthy guidelines for man.