There were flaming swords revolving all around the tree of...

There were flaming swords revolving all around the tree of eternal life to block the way of first human pair. (Bible, 1916:5-9) This story represents an antagonism between God and Adam. Due to this antagonism a continuous rift, confrontation, conflict, clash, and war state established between God and human being. Further it emerged in all spheres of life i.e. in the form of a division between spiritual and material, religious and worldly, divine and human, and Church and state.

According to Iqbal there is a lot of difference between the approaches of both the sacred books Old Testament and Quran in respect of the legend of fall. He commented on this event in the following way.

“But confining oursselves to the Semitic form of the myth, it is highly probable that it arose out of the primitive man‟s desire to explain to himself the infinite misery of his plight in an uncongenial environment, which abounded in diseases and death and obstructed him on all size in his endeavor to maintain himself. Having no control over the forces of nature, a pessimistic view of life was perfectly natural to him.

Thus, in an old Babylonian inscription, we find the serpent (phallic), the tree, and a woman offering an apple (symbol of virginity) to the man. The meaning of the myth is clear—the fall of man from a supposed state of bliss was due to the original sexual act of human pair. The way in which the Qur‟an handles this legend becomes clear when we compare it with the narration of the book of genesis.

The remarkable points of difference between the Quranic and the Biblical narrations suggest unmistakably the purpose of the Quranic narration.” (Iqbal A. M., 1989:66) Human Being and Philosophy As for as, philosophy is concerned, chronologically we may divide it into following ages i.e. ancient, medieval, renaissance, early modern, and modern.

(Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2ooo:690) Almost all manmade political systems revolve around these three main approaches, conservatism, socialism, and liberalism (Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2ooo:693) even we may observe their reflection in classical republicanism, Roman law, natural law, and utilitarianism. According to its own claim the origin of modern Western philosophy is Greek. Renaissance grew on the heels of ancient Greek philosophy.

Medieval period is the age of scholasticism i.e. dark age of philosophy. Reformation accelerated to the confrontation and division of secular and sacred.