Muslim Woman

The study examines the viability of human intellect through which the man has made many an awe inspiring success and con­cludes that the inherent weakness underlying his ideals or his way of life has undermined his constructive genius and has brought a disastrous end to his efforts. The main reason attributed to his phenomenon is that the human intellect helps little because it is not aware of any source of knowledge other than itself. The man has been endeavoring to understand the nature of human self and to devise strategies for the development of human personality but has encountered numerous enigmas, threats and challenges. The Quran's concept of NAFS (Self) has been identi­fied as human self. This not only solves the human riddle but also regulates it as a motive valence for learning with;


* Inbuilt operative laws shunning new intrusions and old obsessions; 

* Varied potentialities – Angelic and satanic; 

* Implications by un­locking the doors of human problems and unraveling all mys­teries of life; 

* Operational injunctions; and 

* The establishment of an epitome of the Quranic Social Order. This is all for living peacefully on this biosphere not on the doctrine of balance of power but on the mutual respect, for disciplining life within the boundary walls of permanent values embodied in the Quran, for the development of human self.That is the Quran's Concept of self-integration, which has profusely been elaborated through this paper.

The history of mankind stands as a living testimony to the fact that man has shown a remarkable constructive genius, having attained many an awe inspiring success, now and then, despite occasional setbacks and natur­al catastrophes. But his constructive genius was always undermined by some inherent weakness underlying his ideals or his way of life, which ulti­mately brought about a disastrous end to his efforts. This paradox leads all thoughtful minds inescapably to the conclusion arrived at by Einstein: By painful experience we've learnt that rational thinking doesn't suffice to solve the problems of our social life. Penetrating research and keen scientific work have often tragic implications for mankind, producing, on the one hand, inven­tions which liberated man from exhaustingly physical labour, making his life easier and richer; but on the other hand, introducing a grave restlessness into his life, making him a slave to his technological environment, and most cata­strophic of all, creating the means for his own mass destruction. This, in­deed, is a tragedy of overwhelming poignancy. (Albert Einstein: Out of My Later Years, P. 152)

Human intellect helps little in this matter, because it isn't aware of any source of knowledge other than itself, so it holds materialistic concept of life according to which a human being consists of body alone. He is born, brought up, eats, sleeps, and falls sick, procreates and then dies. This, in fact, is animal life (47:12, The Quran) for which he needs no divine guidance and, therefore, feels no necessity in having faith in life after death (45:34. The Quran). But the Quran holds that man isn't merely a phy­sical being, he is composed of something else besides his body. It is human self, human personality, which isn't inherited by man in a fully developed state, it exists in a latent form and its development is the ultimate goal of human life. The growth of an individual's physical existence is governed by cer­tain physical laws, but the development of his personality is subject to a different set of laws which have been given to mankind from time to time through Divine Revelation, and are now fully embodied in the Holy Quran.