Reach Muhammad, SAW, the Last and Final Link of the Chain of Divine Guidance

An unprecedented rise of the multi facet technology, particularly its latest phenomenon, IT technology is a prototype with nothing to match in the previous history. It is the technology which gave birth to Globalization connecting the people of the world as if they are habitants of a small village now. The modern technology was rightly expected to help in bridging the gulf of cultures and ideologies and bringing the mankind closer. Through it an atmosphere of mutual understanding between the communities could be developed and enmities and rivalries could be put to an end. But what is in sight is totally different.

The most significant feature of the modern technological age is its having about a dozen theories of the 17th and 18th centuries--- Humanism, Existentialism, Secularism, Materialism, Chance-ism, Evolution, Utilitarianism, Free Competition, Relativism, Communism, Socialism and Democracy---almost all of them relating to the polity, economy and morality. In the other words all of the ideologies and theories mentioned above reason about and call for enhancement of man’s social, moral, political and economic condition. Surge of modern material knowledge of the 20th century speeding up the technology also has the claim to help man in removing predicaments.

But what is the gain for man from these glossy ideas and theories and a huge gush up of the modern technology? He has earned nothing except corruption of his nature and futility of a baffling material life. He has been lowered from the lofty ideals of his life to a consuming animal. As a tool and stooge of the industrialists he has been entangled in a maze of production for consumption and consumption for more production. Confounding ideologies of the 17th and 18th centuries and zenith of the modern knowledge of the 20th century followed by staggering progress in the technological fields has pushed man into the sufferings of inner desolation and hollowness and outwardly and superficial wooing. From the position of a free and responsible being, having a Noble Cause behind his creation, now man has been transformed only a slave, ostensibly of his ‘self’ because most of his efforts and energies are exhausted in working only to satisfy his carnal desires, but actually he has been pushed into the servitude of the industrialists and producers.

In the dust of propaganda of changing the vast world in a tiny global village, instead he had got connected to his fellow men and closer to others he has actually gone far away from himself. In the flourish and hustle and bustle of the cities and town man is lost in his loneliness. Glamour and glitters of the show biz, excess of the entertainment events, glut of food outlets and fun points and all other superfluities of life fail to fill the spiritual vacuum and relieve him from his inner desertedness.

Ignorant, naïve and unknowledgeable times are blamed to had caused huge sacrifices of human lives in the name of religion, but when we reckon the loss of lives only during last 100 years in the effulgence of modern civilization and boom of modern knowledge, it goes much higher than collective loss of almost last several millenniums, and it has been only for establishing hegemony and dominance of some particular nations who unfortunately gained upper handedness in science and technology, progress in weapon industry and surpassing position in wealth.

In spite of an open failure in actual serenity and peace through the materialistic theories and ideas of the 17th and 18th centuries having their roots in about four thousand old Greek philosophies, man is still extolling the same thoughts. He worries not to trace out the lost link of the chain, the Great Truth. The worship of spacious ostensible made him forget the UNSEEN Fact of the Facts, their Lord, the Creator and His Guidance conveyed to man through His Messengers starting with the creation of the first man, Adam up to the last and final Prophet, Muhammad, be peace and blessings of Allah upon him. The modern knowledge of the 20th century and the astonishing phenomenon of Information Technology could but due to their materialistic nature have not enabled man to reach the last Link of the Chain, modern man ignorantly closing his eyes from. Adam, Nuh, Ibrahim, Musa and many other Prophets, be Allah’s blessings upon all of them, are far behind and most of their teaching are lost but Muhammad, SAW, is close, only at the distance of 1444 years back, with all his teachings safe and live. As long as man fails to accept and espouse what Muhammad, be peace and blessings upon him, came with, no other philosophy and theory can prove a guarantee a real SUCCESS for man.