Ideology of the Future

by Muhammad Rafi-Ud-Din

Genres: Islam, Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, Nonfiction

About the author

Introduction:

Dr Mohammad Rafiuddin, born in Jammu in 1904, is considered to be one of the greatest muslim philosophers in the 20th century.

He passed Intermediate in Science, Honours in Persian, Masters in Arabic (1929), Ph.D in Philosophy (1949) and D.Litt in Educational Philosophy (1965).

In his early career he taught Arabic and Persian in Sri Pratap College, Srinagar (1929-32) and Prince of Wales College, Jammu (1933-46) where he wrote his widely acclaimed book "Ideology of the Future".

He was selected as Principal of Sri Karan Singh College, Mirpur in 1946 where he worked for one year.

He served as Research officer in Department of Islamic Reconstruction from 1948 to 1949 and Institute of Islamic Culture from 1950 to 1953.

He remained Director of Iqbal Academy Pakistan from 1953 to 1965.

After his retirement from Iqbal Academy he founded All Pakistan Islamic Education Congress in 1966.

In Novemeber 1969 he met a fatal road accident in Karachi and died on spot.

Contribution to Muslim Philosophy:

1) Ideology of the future
2) Manifesto of Islam
3) First Principles of Education
4) Fallacy of Marxism
5) The Meaning and Purpose of Islamic Research
6) Quran aur Ilm -e- Jadeed (in Urdu)
7) Hikmat-e-Iqbal (in Urdu)

Periodicals & Journals
1) Hikmat-e-Quran
2) Islamic Education

Organisations Founded
1) All Pakistan Islamic Education Congress

Reviews

[Asim Bakhshi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rafiuddin takes on the case of religion and modernity from the best possible foundational standpoint, that is from the human self and its consciousness. Unfortunately, neither the author nor his work is widely known but there would rarely be anyone who has tried to provide a well connected response to all the complicated questions related to life and consciousness in the universe. A response that is well rooted in direct analysis of human nature, its evolution and all the philosophical, moral, social and pragmatic constructs it incessantly tries to make sense of including reason, intuition, instincts, morality, education, history, politics and war etc.

Although, Rafiuddin doesn't acknowledge it directly (as the book does not seem to be formally edited being originally a Doctoral dissertation), his thesis seems to borrow heavily from Iqbal's theories and understanding of consciousness as well as Islamic scriptural and historical sources. The book deserves to be well known and should provide basis for many religious modernist philosophies.

[Shees Hassan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dr Rafi-ud-din elaborated the "philosophy of the self" efficiently in this book. "Refutation of Marxism" which is the key goal of this writing along with his comments on other "theories of Human nature" are excellently explained, keeping all the principles of Logic in sight.
Following are some of my favourite quotes from the book:

"All of our wants beyond those that corresponds to the bare satisfaction of our instinctive animal desires are unnecessary as far as we are animals; they are necessary as far as we are men." (while commenting on the Marx's materialism)

"The only difference between the worshipper and the scientist is that while the former comes in contact with reality as a whole ,the later sees only fraction of it. The appreciation of beauty through the symbol of words should not be less interesting affair than its appreciation through the symbols of line, curve or color." (while elaborating the philosophy of Prayer)

"A prophet is a rare personality who rises to a higher degree of self-consciousness by a special favor of nature and is able to know and teach mankind the law of the self." (while elaborating the purpose of prophethood)

[Amal Abdulahi]

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[Muhammad DAnish · Rating 5 out of 5]

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