Let us first analyze where the Muslims went wrong in their...

Let us first analyze where the Muslims went wrong in their vast history presently spread over more than 14 centuries. Where did the first falsehood creep into the history of the Muslims? We will not leave any- stone unturned and any page unread, to locate this falsehood and ultimately eliminate it. There are two ways to this analysis. First we initiate from the contemporary to the life of the Holy Prophet (p.b.u.h.).

Second is we initiate from the life of the Holy Prophet (p.b.u.h.) to the contemporary. We know that if there was a false in the past, then it had been multiplied with time. Therefore, we take the second option, starting from the life of the Holy Prophet to the present. It would have been an increasingly ardous affair to analyze the complex form of the false in the recent times without analyzing the comparatively bare and raw form of the false in the previous times.

When we mention I bare form of the falsehood' we definitely have taken great pains in comprehending what a 'falsehood' means and implies. This indicates that there exist different forms of falsehood. There are 2 kinds of falsehoods. One is in its bare status, which is in its nascent elementary form, and the other is the falsehood garbed with truth that is the complicated form. The Holy Quran says: "Do not mix the truth with the falsehood "(2:42).

In this verse the Holy Quran exhorts the people not to mix truth and falsehood together. Simply speaking the Holy Quran could have asked us to leave falsehood. But it is needless to mention here that the Holy Quran wants to specify here the second form of falsehood that is more dangerous than simple elementary form of falsehood. This falsehood is the complex form of falsehood that is mixed with truth and is perceived as truth at the outset.

Only when a person ponders over the reality of this he comes to understand that it is, in reality, a falsehood and not truth. But the more simple minded people and those who do not ponder a lot get hooked and start considering this falsehood as being the real form of truth. These people start believing this complex form of false as truth in such a way that they are more than willing to sacrifice their lives for this complex false, of course, under the impression that this is truth by itself.

There is another group of people who are impure at heart. They are quite aware about this complex false and comprehend that this is false but chooses to stick by this false rather than the truth.