By Zuhair Siddiqi
“In these dark and threatening times we have to rediscover the vital truths, those great patterns of thought and behaviour, those great moral and spiritual values, the oneness of God and the brotherhood of man, which are associated with Islam. Unfortunately, in the course of centuries these central truths are obscured, and rites and rituals, creeds and dogmas, have covered up the simplicity of the message of Islam. It is the duty of thinkers in each generation to recapture the original purity and dynamic vigour of the ancient message and re-express it in the idiom of their age”.
Whose voice is this? Not Iqbal’s. Nor that of any Muslim. It is the voice of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the Indian philosopher and statesman, who passed away last week at the ripe old age of 87. Continue reading Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan – the end of an era