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Multifarious modes of worship, civilization at its
apex, social oppression and luxuries seem to have
been common amongst them from all criteria. Nero was
not the lone figure to symbolize recreation and luxuries.
It seems that people in majority kept themselves engrossed
in worldly pleasures. Suddenly something happened
and everything changed into history and archeology.
Study of history and archeology alone may not perhaps
provide humanity with such a profound lesson. Instead
a fruitful mixture of admonition with delving into
history and archeology will prove beneficial at all
levels to the present and future generations.
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The
responsibility of carrying out research into the causes
and forms of multiple worship, social oppression and
inequality practiced in the ancient civilizations
rests on the present day authorities in the field,
in order to provide the coming generations with a
bequest of solid, useful and instructive knowledge.
News from here and there coupled with the facts scoured
by the archeological studies do yield to us the information
concerning the social tyranny and the inequality which
held sway in the days of the now subsided civilizations,
but we feel that the matter should still be probed
further. Although the ways and methods of the social
oppression are no longer the same in today's world
of democracy and equality but this too cannot be denied
that in different regions, different types of oppression
in yet newer forms are still being employed.
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The
persecution meted out to the Children of Israel in
Egypt during the days of Pharaohs as well as the brutalities
practiced by the Romans go without begging for any
proof. It will also be merely a waste of time to demand
proof against the existence of the evil practice of
Sati and the abuse of Devdasis in the subcontinent.
If we conduct a diligent search among the remains
of the buried civilizations we might come up with
proof against many kinds of cruelties which will enable
us to provide the future generations with an exemplary
lesson to learn from.
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It
may sound a bit strange, yet worthy of note that for
the last fifteen hundred years the chain of such incidents
now seems to have discontinued. A span of fifteen
hundred years is no small stretch of time. It is long
enough for civilizations to have emerged, gain the
summit and fade out. As it happens, the recorded history
of these past fifteen hundred years has failed to
document the subsidence or submergence of any civilization.
Has Nature changed its course since then? For answer,
it is not necessary to examine again the debris of
the past civilizations. An objective review of the
history of the previous fifteen hundred years will
make it quite obvious that the commencement of the
Hijri Era has been the most important and revolutionary
event in the history of the Earth.
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Since
then, has man done away with idol worship, hero worship,
worship of the phenomena, graves, superstition, the
nobility, lust, etc., or has its spread now shrunk
in proportion? Has the human being now forsaken oppression
or is it still here? Doubtlessly the spread of multifarious
worship has reduced by a large extent due to mentioned
five factors as I see:
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Prophet Mohammed's emergence on the horizon, |
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Deliverance of Europe from the clutches of religion,
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Introduction of the theory of Communism, |
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Beginning of the era of science and technology,
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Fragmentation of religious oppression in the
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The
issue may be debatable but we should keep the historical
processes as well as its related facts in view. As
regards the oppression, it is still in evidence in
one form or another, in some parts of the world though
it has gone through an important change. The world
now finds itself largely free from religious oppression.
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Fascism,
social injustice, political and industrial violence,
trampling of human rights, indignity of human life,
political corruption and countless other types of
commotion are still making waves in this world and
looks like it is on the increase.
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Let us think over it again and again, for the sake
of humanity, for the sake of ourselves, and for the
sake of this Earth.
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