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second Ignorance. But, as we said before, these statements are not needed, and
the apparent meaning is that /jāhiliyyat-il-'ūlā/ is that very Ignorance of
before Islam which is referred to in another place of the Qur'ān, too. (Sura
'Āl-i-'Imrān, No. 3, verse 143, Sura Al-Mā'idah, No. 5, verse 50, and Sura
Al-Fath, No. 48, verse 26) and the second Ignorance is the Ignorance which will
come into being later (like our age).[1]
However, the verse of the Qur'ān has stated three Divine instructions as
follows:
[1] As it was pointed out a group of the commentators were in doubt about
the meaning of the Arabic phrase /jāhilīyyat-il-'ūlā/ mentioned in the verse
under discussion, as if they could not believe that after the advent of
Islam there will come into being in the world a kind of Ignorance that the
Ignorance of the Arabs before Islam comparing with it will certainly be an
insignificant matter. But today this matter is completely clear for us, who
are witnesses of the horrible manifestations of the Ignorance of the
twentieth century, and this must be counted as one of the miraculous
prophecies of the Qur'ān.
If in the age of first Ignorance the Arabs had some wars and robberies and,
for example, for several times the market of 'Akkāz was the scene of foolish
blood-sheds, and some people were killed, in the Ignorance of our time some
universal wars take place wherein sometimes more than twenty million people
are slain, and more than that are injured or become deformed. If in the
Ignorance of Arabs women displayed their finery, and put their scarves aside
in a way that a part of their breast, throat, necklace, and ear-rings were
seen, in our age they form some clubs under the title of 'Necked Club' (the
example of which is famous in England) wherein, with utmost excuse,
individuals become nude for indecent exposures. If in the age of Arab
Ignorance the polluted women put a sign above their own houses in order to
invite some individuals toward themselves, in the Ignorance of our age there
are some persons who introduce some things in this field in some special
newspapers or in the sites of internet which are earnestly shameful to be
mentioned and the Ignorance of Arabs were hundred times more honourable than
this.
In short, there are some corruptions in faithless material world of today
that leaving them unmentioned is better, and this commentary ought not to be
polluted by it. What was said was only a small portion out of very many
kinds of them in order to show the life of those who get distance with Allah
and, with having thousands of universities, scientific centres and famous
scholars, they are fully polluted by corruptions, so much so that even these
very scientific centres and their scholars sometimes cooperate with them.
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