The present book, authored by Abdur Rahman Shad, fulfils an actue
necessity. To the readers, it presents a number of utilities, such as: (1)The Correct Picture: Allah Almighty, in His linfinite Wisdom, has chosen to preserve the records of various Prophets in the Holy Quran not a book of history in itself but nonrtheless the most authentic chornicle of the days of the prophets, mostly the day of pre-history. The New and Old Testaments do mention some of them. But since the Testaments themselves are based on farfetched hearsay evidence, the true picture has been distorted beyond recognition. The originals have been long lost: what is left is the English versions ranging from the days of King james First of England. And each taranslation, centurr after century, has taken pains to tailor the facts to suit its ends. The process is still going on. Since the present book has taken facts from no source other that the Holy Quran quoting the text as and where required, the English reading public will, l am sure, get the correct picture. (2) lslam Verus Science: lt is said Sicence is non-objective, non-political. Lt takes no side. Lt has no exe of its own to grind. But that claim is false.Modern Sicence follows the line of policy chalked out by its patrons, the material West. Let us take the Darwin s Theory of Evolution, for example. This theory was propounded in the early days of Queen Victoria when the Britishj Empire was firmly established in indian and elsewhere. Lts so-called law of the Survival of The Fittest was given all. Publicity just to advertise the British as the fittest and to instil into other nation a feeling of inferiority complex. On the very fact of it, this Darwins theory is no science: it suffers from a number of jolts and jerks. For arguments sake, even if we suppose that the homo sapiens came out of a germ, passing through so many stages of evolution, the theory desnnt choose to discuss WHO and WHY. It discusses no more than WHAT and HOW. Lf it would dscuss- WHO and WHY, it cannot but reach lslam. That is Why it dorsnt. Even if we suppose that man has come out of ape, and that is the normal procedure of nture, we would surely come across apes in various stages of conversion, But nowhere such an ape is to be found. And no such half-ape half-man has ever been found in the lase 5,000 years sinc we have good history.The perfect scientiflc theory has been set forth by the Holy quran.The first man with complete physical, inbtellectual and moral machinery was directly created in the Heavens by the Almighty the Heavens, his
obtainment of divine pardon, his elevation to prophethood, his
entrance into this world, his efforts twards the propagation of the Deen of lslam, are all indisputable history. The first man of Darwin is lost in mystery. The first man of of lslam is in open daylight. In the realm of scientific research too, the present treatise of the author sets the record right. (2)Evolution of the Sharian; of course,man started life on this earch in all simplicity. The hys complexities and problems have grown stage by stage So the Sharah (the Do s and Donts, the whys and Hows of lslam) came down stage by etage, each stage is represented by a prophet, until at last it came to finality with our Final Proper, Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa, Allahs blessings be on him A study of the prophets, in chronological order, is a study of the evolution of society with all its good peple and bad, its expanding religons ang worship, politics and administrations, social psycho- logos and customs, material wants and goods. It shows how a particular prophet suits his time and clime, how he plays his role to bring the beguiled lost to the Correct Path, what trials and tribulations had he to undergo for the sake of delivering the Divine