We have all read about ' daur e jahiliyya ' , the period before the advent of Islam. Some of the key features that astonished us when we were in school were that, feuds between tribes stretched for generations on insignificant matters like whose horse would first drink water from a well! It is later, that I read more on this period and learnt some good as well as far worst things but most of us have only this memory of our education about ' daur e jahiliyya ' . This period was like any other period in human history. Very much like our own period. Each ' daur e jahiliyya ' promises the coming of a Messiah, like ' daur e jahiliyya ' before Christ foretold his arrival and a Prophet always came to deliver the world from its social evils until our own last Prophet. What about now? The very religion that our Prophet brought has been wickedly distorted and Koran, a guide for all times to come, has been grossly misinterpreted to spread the ver