My Salaam to ALL.
There are many good people here on this forum. They are intelligent and sincere. They both can tell and learn. So I decided to put some of my wonderings in front of you. I hope that I will get many responses which will help me for my further life. We all want a better life in future so its a blessing to get the vision more clearer for future.
I often think that How I know that what I know is TRUTH? What is the criteria to judge that whatever we know is just TRUE? I know, that I Don't know. Now you all think about it and please tell me and others, because it may possible that some of you have some fantastic criteria to know if something is Truth or false. And it seems that most of the posts here is just "truth".
Let me clear my view point.
I feel, that most of the things we put forward are NOT our own. Either we read it, heard it or just create in our mind- means that it can be planted in our minds from different channels. So probably there is NO real OBJECTIVE truth exist. All Truths are constructions of mine- means SUBJECTIVE.
Being a Muslim I have a faith- which is THE Only TRUTH- The ALLAH- the only ultimate Truth. But rest? Our Kalama's first word is, "LA" which means " NO- Nothingness".(There is NOTHING except ALLAH).
We all see things from different views. We all think Different from our personal heads. We all hear different. We all are UNIQUE. There are NO 2 persons alike. You know two real brothers are NOT alike. A son can be very different from his father. There are NO two persons who have same Finger Prints. It means every one of us is UNIQUE- One and Only one on this whole earth.
Generally the following 3 criteria's exist,
1- The person closest to truth is the person WHO has experience the things himself/ herself.
2- The witness- who see something by his/her own eyes, can be more near to truth but NOT exist as the person who is experiencing something.
3- The third type of truth is " Heard About" we heard, read, or see on TV,s. Such "truth" can be consider as "planted" as we neither experience it or witnessed.
Now what I feel that those reports, posts or whatever we talk about belong to category no 3 - "the heard about". And those who planted it can be BBC, CNN, PTV, Dawn or Naw-a-Wakt, Geo or Ary or many more.
As for as reliability of such truths is concerned so UNfortunately 'the heard abouts' carry least Reliability and Validity, it can not be more than few percent (%).
How we know that a book writer is telling and writing truth? How we know a book of history is based on truth? A newspapers journalist can write, about Musharaf, Shaukat Aziz, Nawaz Sharif, Zardari, Bush or whatever.......Now is it NOT planted in 'me' and I confidently spread it as a Truth? Neither I have experienced it nor I witness of it. And first of ALL it is NOT sure that even this journalist have seen anything of it. So reliability and validity of it is very small but destructions of such things are quite HUGE. These are mostly Rumours and as far as I know, Islam prohibited rumours because they can be very destructive.
How comes we KNOW a lot about those people whom we NEVER ever met? OR going to meet.
If I have Never met them then whatever I know about them is/are planted in me. On the other hand we Know very little about OWNSELF. That is may be human beings one of the weakest point, SELF-BLINDNESS.
Now another criterion of Truth mostly people mention is quantitative.
If 5-6 or 7 persons has wrote one and a same thing and one or 2 has written something else, then we believe that after all majority has written this thing that's why this one is True. IS THIS A CORRECT CRITERIA? Have Majority always Right? How can we say that quantitative criteria is Correct and Right?
If 5 person say something and other 4 say something else, DO it means that 5 has Right and other 4 have to accept what 5 says?
If 5 donkeys decide to eat ****, DO 4 horses been forced to eat it just because they are 4?
So Dear ALL! Come with some intellectual arguments both in favour and against too. Tell about yourself that HOW you know that What you know is truth? AND according to which criteria, you say that what you say is truth?
raheb
