How Islam Transformed Arabs From The State Of Jahiliya (Ignorance) To Being The Torch Bearers Of Wisdom?
By Varsha Sharma, New Age Islam
30 April, 2014
Generally, Islamic
scholars use a term pre-Islamic and maintain that it was the “age of
ignorance” (Jahiliya). They mention that with the advent of Islam the
‘age of ignorance’ came to an end. First of all, the division of human
history into Pre-Islamic and Post-Islamic eras is an intellectually
unjustified interpretation of history. As regards Jahiliya, the holy
prophet and his companions were of the opinion that Jahiliya was a
condition of the mind and did not refer to any specific period in
history. The Qur’an had changed the minds of its followers and
accordingly a new era had been formed. Ignorance can disappear only when
the teachings of Islam are whole-heartedly accepted and dutifully
followed. That is the reason that the intellectually and socially
backward atmosphere in the Arabia which existed 1400 years is still
prevailing.
A cursory glance at
the history of the Arabia in the sixth century A.D. shows that the Arabs
were then deeply entrenched in utter ignorance and extreme darkness. It
will be explicitly clear if we take a critical analysis of the
conditions in the Pre-Islamic Arabia.
Arabs before Islam
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