HISTORY OF WITHOUTS

human history. Human beings remained oblivious to the fact that the beginning of the intellectual process is the ‘deconditioning of conditioned minds’. They failed to realize that they can remove their artificial veils and return to their original, pristine nature. The Creator has provided a material example of this matter in the form of an onion. The onion, in the symbolic language of nature, counsels man to remove the external layers from his mind, and only then can he understand things in their original form. But man neither learnt the lesson from the onion, nor could Professor Watson and his supporters discover this reality. As a result, human beings throughout their entire history have remained ignorant of this reality. History shows that all political and non-political movements have been the result of some reaction or another; For instance Rousseau reacted against monarchy, Marx against the capitalist system. Jamaluddin Afghani rose against western colonialism and Gandhi against British rule. Ayatullah Khomeini led a movement against the Shah of Iran, and Syed Qutub against Zionism, etc. It is a fact that a reactionary movement is always the result of a negative mentality. Man develops a hatred for someone and then launches a movement against him. This is the entire story of human history. All human beings have lived in one way or the other in a state of hatred; they have failed to live in a positive state. The reason is that they have remained unaware of conditioning. They have failed to understand that without deconditioning their minds, they cannot see the facts in an ‘as it is’ form, which is the first condition of positive thinking. Spirituality without Intellectual Revolution Spirituality has always been a subject of interest for man. It is known by different names in different circles, for instance, mysticism, meditation, Sufism, etc. For the last several thousand years great activities have been continuing on the spiritual front. But so far, these activities have not yielded any real benefit, in spite of every effort. What man has achieved is only ecstasy at the unconscious level, instead of spiritual development, which was the actual goal of these activities. For ages people have believed that the human mind is the centre of Man must learn the creation plan of God from His Divine Book—the Quran— and build his life in accordance with the guidelines set forth therein.