- Introduction
- Divorce from religious serenity and ethical sanctity; our life has become grossly materialistic.
- Wordsworth:”World is too much with us.”
- The sole aim of modern man is to advance materially, even by means of cut-throat competition.
- T.S. Eliot: “Hollow men journeying ceaselessly and without any aim” in the waste land, where “the very breath of the wind is fatally poisonous.
- Our mission in life is accumulation of material wealth; our vision is limited, shadowy and dim and our outlook is much too mechanical.
- The one glaring result of mechanization of our outlook is our complete separation from nature.
- Man has become too much time conscious and equally unconscious of the importance of noble relations and sentiments.
- The fatal tendency to accumulate wealth has led modern man to a state of spiritual morbidness.
- Bertrand Russell: Our civilization has been “subjected to be self-decaying and self-damaging convention of over maturity.”
- This perverted civilization of ours has robbed us of our spiritual and moral values of life.
- Along with material need, we have to satisfy our spiritual and moral urges, too.
- Islam teaches an absolute balance between material and spiritual life.
- Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the father of the nation, also held the same view of life. According to him man’s greatest endeavor should be the purification of his soul.
- “Man has become uninterested in the final activities of his life; he has no response to the inner values of life. He is over occupied with one vocation, i.e. to pile up wealth.”
- “Man capital has reduced to mere machine, ever busy in moving, rolling back, pushing itself forward, never ceasing but always grinding and grinding.”
- Conclusion
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