INTRODUCTION

The present book, authored by Abdur Rahman Shad, fulfils an actue

necessity. To the readers, it presents a number of utilities, such as:
(1)The Correct Picture: Allah Almighty, in His linfinite Wisdom, has chosen
to preserve the records of various Prophets in the Holy Quran not a
book of history in itself but nonrtheless the most authentic chornicle of
the days of the prophets, mostly the day of pre-history. The New and
Old Testaments do mention some of them. But since the Testaments
themselves are based on farfetched hearsay evidence, the true picture
has been distorted beyond recognition. The originals have been long
lost: what is left is the English versions ranging from the days of King
james First of England. And each taranslation, centurr after century,
has taken pains to tailor the facts to suit its ends. The process is still
going on. Since the present book has taken facts from no source other
that the Holy Quran quoting the text as and where required, the
English reading public will, l am sure, get the correct picture. (2) lslam
Verus Science: lt is said Sicence is non-objective, non-political. Lt takes
no side. Lt has no exe of its own to grind. But that claim is false.Modern
Sicence follows the line of policy chalked out by its patrons, the
material West. Let us take the Darwin s Theory of Evolution, for
example. This theory was propounded in the early days of Queen
Victoria when the Britishj Empire was firmly established in indian and
elsewhere. Lts so-called law of the Survival of The Fittest was given all.
Publicity just to advertise the British as the fittest and to instil into
other nation a feeling of inferiority complex. On the very fact of it, this
Darwins theory is no science: it suffers from a number of jolts and
jerks. For arguments sake, even if we suppose that the homo sapiens
came out of a germ, passing through so many stages of evolution, the
theory desnnt choose to discuss WHO and WHY. It discusses no more
than WHAT and HOW. Lf it would dscuss- WHO and WHY, it cannot but
reach lslam. That is Why it dorsnt. Even if we suppose that man has
come out of ape, and that is the normal procedure of nture, we would
surely come across apes in various stages of conversion, But nowhere
such an ape is to be found. And no such half-ape half-man has ever
been found in the lase 5,000 years sinc we have good history.The
perfect scientiflc theory has been set forth by the Holy quran.The first
man with complete physical, inbtellectual and moral machinery was
directly created in the Heavens by the Almighty the Heavens, his

obtainment of divine pardon, his elevation to prophethood, his

entrance into this world, his efforts twards the propagation of the Deen
of lslam, are all indisputable history. The first man of Darwin is lost in
mystery. The first man of of lslam is in open daylight. In the realm of
scientific research too, the present treatise of the author sets the
record right.
(2)Evolution of the Sharian; of course,man started life on this earch in all
simplicity. The hys complexities and problems have grown stage by
stage So the Sharah (the Do s and Donts, the whys and Hows of
lslam) came down stage by etage, each stage is represented by a
prophet, until at last it came to finality with our Final Proper, Hadrat
Muhammad Mustafa, Allahs blessings be on him A study of the
prophets, in chronological order, is a study of the evolution of society
with all its good peple and bad, its expanding religons ang worship,
politics and administrations, social psycho- logos and customs,
material wants and goods. It shows how a particular prophet suits his
time and clime, how he plays his role to bring the beguiled lost to the
Correct Path, what trials and tribulations had he to undergo for the
sake of delivering the Divine