Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi

importance of history, according to qur’an
into disintegration and is totally ruined. Such a
nation can never achieve greatness and is bound
to fall into decline and extinction.
It is not we who are saying this. This is the
dictum of the Holy Qur’an that if oppression and
tyranny take root in a society, it
is ruined.
[“Nor are We going to d sstroy a popalation except
when its members practise inequity (tyranny) (xxviii.
59 .)]
,
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It is not necessary that all the people in a
society should practise tyranny. It is
not necessary
that the whole society should be a society
of oppressors. It there is a small section of oppressors
but no one protests against their
doings, if
no movement is launched against oppvessois and
people suffer this situation calmly, ruiu and destruction
overtake the society. Then both the
virtuous and the evil-doers meet the same fate.
Those who have committed crimes are equally
punished with those who have been passive spectators
of the situation.
I here is another verse of the Holy Qur 5,n
which says :
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