Page 158 - The Intellectual Struggle Against Darwinism

156 THE INTELLECTUAL STRUGGLE AGAINST DARWINISM

schemes were never successful.
Bediuzzaman also stated that Darwinism and material-
ism would grow in strength, particularly in the End Times,
that denial would draw strength and spread, but that this cor-
ruption will come to an end with the intellectual struggles of
the Mahdi and the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). As Bediuzzaman
makes clear, the Mahdi will discharge his duty to the full and
will be a means whereby humans are liberated by eliminating
Darwinism and materialism:

Firstly: with the spread of the disease of Darwinism and
materialism under the influence of science and philosophy,
salvation lies in a faith of such a kind as to fully silence phi-
losophy and materialism. 57
Bediuzzaman describes how Darwinism and materialism are
the foundations of the methods of the Dajjal, and how the Prophet
Jesus (pbuh) will wage a major struggle to neutralize this corrup-
tion:

At the end of time, Jesus (upon whom be peace) will come and
will act in accordance with the Shari'ah of Mohammed (may
God bless him and grant him peace), indicates that at the end
of time the religion of Christianity will be purified and divest
itself of superstition in the face of the current of unbelief and
atheism born of naturalist philosophy, and will be transformed
into Islam. At this point, the collective personality of
Christianity will kill the fearsome collective personality of ir-
religion with the sword of heavenly revelation; so too, repre-
senting the collective personality of Christianity, Jesus (upon
whom be peace) will kill the Dajjal, who represents the collec-
tive personality of irreligion, that is, he will kill atheistic
thought. 58