Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi

S7t;DY OF HISTORY
decline.
This is not our personal view. It i 3 the
Qur’anic view of
history which says that when
moral standards of the influential section of
people deteriorate, when they become disobedient
to God and onmit all kind; or sins, when
they trespass the limits laid down by God and
fUgraotly violate the principles of Nature, the
entire people fall into ruin.
The Holy Qur'an has repeatedly said that
the decline of a nation is caused by its excesses
and tyrannies.
You must have come across the
tradition of the Holy Prophet which says that the
kingdom of disbelievers may last but not the
kingdom of tyrants. An oppressive regime can
bring no blessings to humanity and it is the
habit of God that He always causes such a regime
to fall. if cruelty and oppression become the
order of the day in some society, it
exploitation
becomes its normal practice, if
there is social inequality
ia the society, if the wealthy and the
influential take undue advantage of the weakness
0i
sections, if the higher classes disregard
the interests and rights of the lower classif
the poor and the weak remain deprived of
e ba^c necessaries of life, then the society fall 3
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