Essay - Islam And the Modern World

Islam And the Modern World

      The modern world is a world of problem. Insatiability, Insincerity, bestiality and issularity reign over every heart. Sincerity has lost its currency, and showy and gaudy manners have taken its place. Moral and ethical obligations have come into obsolescence due to which family bonds have broken, home has lost his charms and meaning and true love between wives and husbands has given way to insincerity resulting in divorces. The concept of sexual freedom has created many problems and has spread AIDS which is fatal disease. The concept of nationalism obligates a nation to hate others. The distinction of caste, creed, colour and country result in violences, brutalities, arsons, genocides and murders. Economic injustice has given rise to class conflicts, crimes and suicides.
      Only Islam present the solution for all the problems the modern world in confronted with. It has given the world a complete code leading to a peaceful, serene and placid life. If followed strictly it guarantees full development of all faculties, instincts and propensity of a man within limits of a man within limits of reasonability.
       Islam ensures economic justice, non accumulation of wealth and equal opportunity in the economic field, thus nipping class conflicts in the bud. If the economic rights and obligations determined by Islam are respected, the questions of inequality in distribution of wealth will disappear.
       The concept of nationalism is un-Islamic. Islam disapproves distinction of caste, creed, colour and country. To Islam every man is equal and has equal rights to live, to earn, to develop his faculties, to live any where, to follow rights to live anywhere, to follow any creed and to do anything which is not prohibited . Islam gives strict moral and ethical code of life. It ensures a happy family life. It ensures a happy family life and if the sexual code of Islam is followed the problems of abortion, maintenance of illegitimate off springs and the spread of the lethal disease called AIDS will be solved.
      Islam disapproves violence in any form and disapprobates arson, killings, waging, warfares oe even having contempt for others. Life is a sacred gift of God and must be respected. To Islam the life of one person is as important, valuable and sacred as that of others and as such should not be taken away for any cause, which Islam disapproves.