Thereafter...

Thereafter, disease creeps slowly into the social units; the very social bodies and institutions that have been built by all individuals to symbolize the collective spirit of the group and represent its cultural progression. When the disease permeates all the cells of these institutions, they began to function reversely. This time the disease travels from the institutions to the individuals. As a result, such morbid phenomena change into a social and behavioural tide that engulfs everyone.

Sometimes human communities may contract cultural malaise while they are at the summit of their scientific progress. The human community, though scientifically and industrially advanced, is suffering from the most fatal social plagues, namely the dangerous deviations which are threatening to annihilate, on this planet, all the scientific achievements and marvelous production of man's intellect. Man's diseased, materialistic culture is tumbling down the slope of history.

It is not only simply unhealthy, but also has entered the final phase of its morbid downfall. The 'pre-Islamic era' 'formula' of life, adopted by man, inevitably ends in total destruction and annihilation. This is a fact recorded by history and stressed in the Qur'an. It is a lesson drawn from the fate of numerous extinct cultures. "How many a town We destroyed while it was iniquitous, so it is fallen down upon its roofs; and (how many) a deserted well and palace raised high!

Have they not travelled in the land so that they should have hearts with which to understand, or ears with which to hear? For surely it is not the eyes that are blind, but blind are the hearts which are in the breasts." Holy Qur'an (22:45-46) "Have they not travelled in the land and seen what was the end of those before them? Allah destroyed them.

And for the infidels is the like thereof." Holy Qur'an (47:10) "And how many a town which rebelled against the commandment of its Lord and His messengers, so We called it to severe account and We chastised it with a stern chastisement! So it tasted the evil consequences of its conduct, and the end of its affair was perdition." Holy Qur'an (65:8-9) "We have certainly been promised this - we and our fathers before; these are nothing but stories of the ancients!