Muslim Woman

What is the good of sudden revolutionary changes? What does mankind
gain by accelerating the working of eternal laws for a time and
securing their extraordinary results if after a while human mind and
those results are to revert to their old level? In a concrete form the
question might be, what contribution did early Islam make to the
betterment of mankind?  The answer is "immense" Firstly, Islam gave
the world God's eternal laws in the form of a book (Quran) so that
who so wishes might give them practical shape and obtain their happy
results. Secondly, Islam showed the world that the laws are workable,
that they are not mere utopia but a practicable code of life which was
given a trial in a particular period of history and produced positive
results. Emergent evaluations help mankind go ahead. As already
explained human intellect works by experimentation. 1t evolves a plan,
executes it and then finds after centuries that the plan was defective
and hence a failure. Then it begins experimenting with some other plan.
If, however, it can have the benefit of seeing the results achieved by
a revolution, the precedent will help it assess much better the results
of its own planning. A comparative study of pre and post Islamic
history will show at once that the progress man has made during post
Islamic period is unparalleled. The progress would appear much more
marked had the history of early Islam been available in its unalloyed
form. A revolution gives the ever-moving vehicle of time a push which
accelerates its speed and enables it to cover a lot of distance with
the momentum gained. It was the momentum generated by the short lived
Islamic Social Order, which helped Muslims maintain for centuries their
leadership of the world in science and art. Western thinkers and
historians admit the truth of the statement. In his book The Making of
Humanity, Briffault has devoted a whole chapter to the theme under the
caption Dar Al-Hikmat and says,

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People with superficial knowledge usually reject the validity of the
theory of evolution on the grounds that human beings did not evolve
into a higher species. They ignore the fact that evolution no longer
takes place in bodies or forms. The evolution of life into human form
is the beginning of intellectual evolution and this evolution is still
taking place. Consider from an intellectual point of view that the cave
dwellers of hundreds of thousands of years ago and the moon conquering
humans of today belong to the same species. When it comes to
intelligence, today's humans are definitely different than the cave
dwellers of long ago.

The purpose of divine revelation is to activate and polish the human
intellect and increase its field of activity. The Quran constantly
appeals to reason and experiment. It says, "These people do not ponder
and reflect on the Quran. It seems as if their minds have locked
themselves up from the inside so that nothing can get into them."
(47:24). According to the Quran, those people who readily believe in
anything without first questioning or thinking over it are not
Momineen. While describing the traits of the Momineen Allah Almighty
says, these are the people who do not accept without scrutiny and
deliberation. (25:73) They accept His signs on the basis of knowledge
and insight. As far as the vastness of the field of human thought and
reflection is concerned, the Quran says; Allah Almighty brings forward
the clues and hints in such a fashion thereby enabling you to reflect
on this life and the hereafter." (2:219)

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