Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi

IMPORTANCE OF HISTORY, ACCORDING TO QUR’AN
of tyrants, like Pharaohs and Hamans, and that
of the ‘Ad and the ThamQd, of the people of
Sbu'aib and Midian, of Lot's nation and of the
Israelites, so that the nation and community
which accepts Muhammad as its Prophet may
learn from the mistakes of the earlier nations
and take the path which is straight.
It
is our firm belief that the sciences existing
in the world are not related to
everyone except
in a limited way. There is no science which relates
to all the people equally, whether they are
readers, teachers or students, whether attending
seminaries of learning or outside these seminaries.
There is only one science,
the science of
history, which concerns everyone in some way.
There are
very few people who create history,
most of the people are products of history. Some
are creatures of history and some want to turn
the tide of history according to their own way of
thinking. Otherwise everyone flows with the
of history.
tide
But apart from these debates about the concept
and philosophy of history which come with-
1D the purview of scholars and apart from those
concepts which give a mateiialistic interpretation
of history, what we have understood from a
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