CLEFT BETWEEN EASTERN ISLAM AND WESTERN CHRISTIANITY CREATED BY THE WESTERN DECLENSION OF JUSTICE AND SECULARIZATION OF RELIGION - Muin-ud-Din Ahmad Khan

It is plain truism to conceive justice as to give somebody his just share, his natural deserts, his justly acquired claims. It is opposed to injustice, which means depriving somebody of his just share, denying somebody of just claim, oppressing and repressing somebody unjustly. Both these positive and negative situations inevitably carry moral and ethical connotation. For the reason why justice does not apply to any species of animals save and except human being since others lack freedom of will, freedom of choice and the power of discrimination between good and evil through diverse animal species may share rational calculation and general intelligence with humankind. Thus, justice is the distinctive capability of human being. First of all, we come across the concept of justice in the Old Testament of the holy Bible in the form of Righteousness (sadaqu) and the selfsame concept runs through the New Testament down to the holy Quran (adl). This Semitic Abrahamic religious cultural civilizational justice is ascribed in its all round perfection to the supreme lord, the one and unique Jehovah, God, Allah as the Jews, Christians and Muslims call Him respectively. And, at the same time, justice is demanded of men and women in accordance with his or her capacity in all mutual dealings and in his or her prayerful submission to the supreme lord, which has been tagged with religious faith in the all powerfulness of the supreme lord and resurrection of human beings after death on the Day of Final judgment by the supreme lord and award of appropriate reward and punishment to men and women for their good or bad motive and action.

ISLAMIC VALUES AND THE CHALLANGES OF MODERNISM - Late Muhammad Abdul Haq

Introduction:

Man lives today in an age characterized by an unprecedented intellectual confusion and religious crisis arising out of the fact that the tremendous advance of modern science on a scale hitherto undreamt of and the rise of modern ‘ism’ have caused religious beliefs and established traditions to be seriously questioned. The origin of the Universe, the creation of man and even the existence of God have become vulnerable to grave doubt and arbitrary conjecture. Now religion is being reproached as unscientific and obsolete phenomenon having no relevance in the wider context of modern life. It is being asserted that the reality of God has not been demonstrated nor is demonstrable in reason. Likewise, the nature of posthumous life is unknown and unknowable.