POSTSCRIPT
The
reader is entitled to ask me:
Who am I?
and
2. Why have I written this book?
1. I am simply nobody. In fact, I
am worse than many and better than none. Yet I have written this book which is
didactic in essence and form.
2. Why? It is a long story. If I
tell in detail, the reader may think that I am trying to join the league of gods
and gurus through the backdoor. Of course, this thought gripped me for many
years but I knew at heart that there is no truth in revelation, and it is wrong
to proclaim one's superiority over one's fellow-beings by threatening them with
hell and coaxing them with the fiction of heaven. It was a great temptation
which lasted for several years. Despite many drawbacks I am glad to say that I
had the good fortune of resisting this evil desire and it took a long struggle
to conquer this passion. Even then, I thought I had no qualification to write
such a complex book of universal concern. Treating myself the victim of my own
fantasies, I decided not to think about the subject anymore. But I was wrong. I
started having terrible nightmares, all related to this topic. It appeared to me
that unless I wrote this book, I would eternally suffer from excruciating
dreams. Yet at the same time, I questioned myself: "Why me? Why shouldn't
someone better qualified undertake this project?".
Then one day it dawned on me that
as revelation is a falsehood, writing such a book is not the privilege of a
Messiah or Messenger but the concern of an ordinary mortal like myself. It
strengthened my belief that gods, gurus, messiahs and messengers are the cause
of man's spiritual destruction because their claims to divinity have distracted
him from the right path. As a result, human beings have fallen victims to the
dominance urge of these self-appointed divines. Thus they are likely to face
spiritual extinction, and stand no chance of eternity. This is what gave me the
strength to write this book. The day I decided to do so, I stopped having
nightmares.
It is not my intention to offend
anyone. However, I apologise to the believers of all shades. I shall be prepared
to modify the contents of this book if they can show me that I have misquoted or
misinterpreted their scriptures.
Finally, I ought to add that I
should have included a discussion on the relationship between the opposite sexes
because their mutual attitudes exert an immense influence on social harmony. I,
therefore, intend to publish my views on the subject, by the Autumn of 1991,
under the title: SEXUAL CONFLICT.
Anwar Shaikh,
1st June, 1990
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