TOWARDS GLOBAL PEACE

History can forgive Ibn Muqla of the past, but what is the excuse for the present “Ibn Muqla” who does not put his abilities into constructive work, but is shying away from his valuable opportunities while indulging in selfglorifying acts of personal ambitions? The strangest thing we’ve seen That is, there are two ministers in one country. These abilities of Ibn Muqla could have helped immensely in the development of his art. If he had put these opportunities into the development and research of the art of writing and other related things in this regard, not only would the Arabic script have reached its perfection long ago but many other inventions of the field of writing and printing which came to light much later would have come into existence much earlier. For example, the paper was invented in China in AD 105, eight hundred years before Ibn Muqla. It was invented by Cai Lun who, like Ibn Muqla, was the minister of the Chinese Emperor Han Ho Ti. Some Chinese prisoners who came into the hands of Muslims in the Battle of Arabs and Chinese in Russian Turkistan knew how to make paper. They were asked to make paper in Samarkand. After that in 795, the manual papermaking industry was established in Baghdad. However, the work of making paper through the machine was first started in 1750 in Holland. The papermaking in the form of a continuous roll started in 1798 in France. Similarly, the printing press was probably first discovered by the Chinese in 770. This was 115 years before the birth of Ibn Muqla. The oldest specimen of printing was discovered in China even earlier in the fifth century AD. The developed printing press in Europe was created by Gutenberg in the 15th century and he used it to print the Bible. However, the printing press in the Muslim world reached Egypt for the first time in 1798 through Napoleon. Ibn Muqla was not only an expert in the art of writing but also had amazing creativity. If he had put his God-gifted abilities in this field, then paper printing and other such blessings which became available in the Muslim world much later would have been made available during the life of Ibn Muqla. Ibn Muqla would have been able to take the Muslim world into the age of the printing press a thousand years ago. But he was not content to restrict himself to this field. He could have utilized