Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi

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The Role of History in the
Rise and Fall of Nations
The importance of history needs no clarifica-
from which all
tion. This is the master science
have originated and with whose
other sciences
help they take the road to further progress, keeping
this in mind, Iqbal, who was a great thinker
not only of Pakistan but of the whole world, has
said that just as memory is important in the life
of the individual and if memory slackens the
individual’s whole life becomes meaningless,
similarly, history is important in the life of a
nation and if a nation loses its history, its life
too becomes devoid of meaning.
Therefore, the
Qur’Sn has laid great stress on the study of history
and assigned great importance to history.
Those who are devoted to the study of the
Qur an must have come across in it the word
Ayah (sign) whose plural is Ayat. Generally^
it is thought that Ayat in the Qur’an means
those verses of which the Qur’an is composed
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