The Manifesto of Islam | Dr. Rafi ud Din

The Manifesto of Islam | Paperback

An Exposition of Islam as the Inevitable World Ideology of the Future
by Dr. Muhammad Rafi-Ud-Din

The present crisis in world affairs, threatening the total collapse of civilization and even the total extinction of the human race, is forcing mankind to search for a remedy . Of late their interest in religion suddenly revived. Is religion , if properly understood, the only refuge of mankind from these impending calamities? They are searching for any answer to this question. On the other hand the Muslims are claiming openly and repeatedly before the whole world that Islam is the only ideology that can permanently unite the human race, establish a lasting peace on earth and carry man to that highest stage of his mental, moral, material and spiritual evolution of which there is a promise in the potentialities of his nature. This devolves upon the Muslims the responsibility to tell the world what Islam is, how it differs from other religions, what are the intellectual foundations of its claim, what are it aims and objects and how it intends to realise them. The Manifesto of Islam is an endeavor to provide a brief answer to these questions. The word "manifesto" has been generally used for a declaration by a sovereign, a state or a body of individuals, making known past actions and motives of actions announced as forthcoming. But since the appearance, a century ago, of the Communist Manifesto as an instrument of worldwide propagation of Communism- leading ultimately to the emergence of that ideology as a great political power in the world_ this world has acquired a new significance, as a statement setting forth the historical bases, the fundamental principles and the expected achievements of an ideology demanding a worldwide recognition. I am using the word only in this latter sense. The readers of this booklet will find that, as an explanation of the fundamental principles of Islam, its subject- matter takes the shape of a theory of History based on a theory of human nature, according to which Islam is the inevitable world ideology of this future. The central idea of this theory of human nature is that man's urge for an ideal is the sole, the real and the ultimate motivating force of all his activities, even those which proceed immediately from his animal instincts, and that this urge can be satisfied only by an ideal of the highest Beauty and perfection. This idea comes into conflict, not only with the atheistic philosophy of Marx, but also with the psychological theories of Freud, Adler and McDougall which are generally considered to be the standard and correct theories of human nature in modern times. Readers of The Manifesto of Islam who may desire to know in greater detail the facts which force one to accept the validity of this idea vis-à-vis all these theories and of other philosophical points raised in this Manifesto are referred to my book Ideology of the Future