History ...
from an Islamic perspective
Say: "Travel through the
earth and see what was the end of those before (you):
Most of them worshipped
others besides Allah."
Sura 30: Al- Rum, Verse
42, TMQ: Yusuf Ali
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'No Muslim needs to be told
about the importance of HISTORY if only because the Quran is full of it.
Ironically no one seems more ignorant of their history today as the Muslims,
for they, like others, certainly know who controls the past controls the
future. But what they do not seem to wake up to is the corollary - whoever
controls the present, too often, controls the past. This is not simply
to explain why they remain ignorant of their past but to make them appreciate
the fact that those who control their present will not easily give up their
past. The past is an important component of people's freedom, for it gives
them their identity and therefore the freedom to be what they are. But
without it no nation, or indeed individual, makes any meaningful progress.
People's past gives them not only their identity and their worth, but also
their bearings and their goals. Our future therefore is in discovering
our past.'
Author: Usman Bugaje, page
78 of Al-Mizan (The Balance) Vol. 2, Issue 1, 1996, published jointly by
the Federation of Student Islamic Societies in the UK & Islamic Foundation.
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