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    What They Say About Islam

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    مُساهمة من طرف AlJna 2010-07-03, 10:49 pm


    What They Say About Islam 81011The
    Islam that was revealed to Muhammad (PBUH), is the


    continuation and culmination of all the preceding revealed religions and


    hence it is for all times and all peoples. This status of
    Islam is

    sustained by glaring facts. Firstly, there is no
    other revealed book

    extant in the same form and content
    as it was revealed. Secondly, no other

    revealed religion
    has any convincing claim to provide guidance in all

    walks
    of human life for all times. But Islam addresses humanity at large

    and offers basic guidance regarding all human problems. Moreover,
    it has

    withstood the test of fourteen hundred years and
    has all the

    potentialities of establishing an ideal
    society as it did under the

    leadership of the last Prophet
    Muhammad (PBUH).

    It was a miracle that Prophet Muhammad
    could bring even his toughest

    enemies to the fold of Islam
    without adequate material resources.

    Worshippers of
    idols, blind followers of the ways of forefathers,


    promoters of tribal feuds, abusers of human dignity and blood, became
    the

    most disciplined nation under the guidance of Islam
    and its Prophet. Islam

    opened before them vistas of
    spiritual heights and human dignity by

    declaring
    righteousness as the sole criterion of merit and honor. Islam


    shaped their social, cultural, moral and commercial life with basic
    laws

    and principles which are in conformity with human
    nature and hence

    applicable in all times as human nature
    does not change.

    It is so unfortunate that the Christian
    West, instead of sincerely

    trying to understand the
    phenomenal success of Islam during its earlier

    time,
    considered it as a rival religion. During the centuries of the


    Crusades this trend gained much force and impetus and a huge amount
    of

    literature was produced to tarnish the image of Islam.
    But Islam has begun

    to unfold its genuineness to the
    modern scholars whose bold and objective

    observations on
    Islam belie all the charges leveled against it by the


    so-called unbiased orientalists.

    Here we furnish some
    observations on Islam by great and acknowledged

    non-Muslim
    scholars of modern time. Truth needs no advocates to plead on


    its behalf, but the prolonged malicious propaganda against Islam
    has

    created great confusion even in the minds of free and
    objective thinkers.



    "It (Islam) replaced
    monkishness by manliness. It gives hope to the

    slave,
    brotherhood to mankind, and recognition of the fundamental facts of

    human nature."

    Canon Taylor, Paper read before the
    Church Congress at Walverhamton,

    Oct. 7, 1887; Quoted by
    Arnoud in THE PREACHING OF ISLAM, pp. 71-72.

    "Sense of
    justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because


    as I read in the Qur'an I find those dynamic principles of life, not


    mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life
    suited to the

    whole world."

    Lectures on
    "The Ideals of Islam;" see SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF


    SAROJINI NAIDU, Madras, 1918, p. 167.

    "History makes it
    clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims


    sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword

    upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths
    that

    historians have ever repeated."

    De
    Lacy O'Leary, ISLAM AT THE CROSSROADS, London, 1923, p. 8.


    "But Islam has a still further service to render to the cause of

    humanity. It stands after all nearer to the real East than Europe
    does,

    and it possesses a magnificent tradition of
    inter-racial understanding and

    cooperation. No other
    society has such a record of success uniting in an


    equality of status, of opportunity, and of endeavours so many and so

    various races of mankind . . . Islam has still the power to
    reconcile

    apparently irreconcilable elements of race and
    tradition. If ever the

    opposition of the great societies
    of East and West is to be replaced by

    cooperation, the
    mediation of Islam is an indispensable condition. In its


    hands lies very largely the solution of the problem with which Europe is


    faced in its relation with East. If they unite, the hope
    of a peaceful

    issue is immeasurably enhanced. But if
    Europe, by rejecting the

    cooperation of Islam, throws it
    into the arms of its rivals, the issue can

    only be
    disastrous for both."

    H.A.R. Gibb, WHITHER ISLAM, London,
    1932, p. 379.

    "I have always held the religion of Muhammad
    in high estimation because

    of its wonderful vitality. It
    is the only religion which appears to me to

    possess that
    assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence


    which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the

    wonderful man and in my opinion for from being an anti-Christ, he
    must be

    called the Saviour of Humanity. I believe that if a
    man like him were to

    assume the dictatorship of the
    modern world, he would succeed in solving

    its problems in a
    way that would bring it the much needed peace and


    happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would
    be

    acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning
    to be acceptable

    to the Europe of today."


    G.B. Shaw, THE GENUINE ISLAM, Vol. 1, No. 81936.

    "The
    extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the

    outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world
    there is,

    as it happens, a crying need for the propagation
    of this Islamic virtue."



    A.J. Toynbee,
    CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL, New York, 1948, p.205.

    "The rise of
    Islam is perhaps the most amazing event in human history.


    Springing from a land and a people like previously negligible, Islam

    spread within a century over half the earth, shattering great
    empires,

    overthrowing long established religions,
    remoulding the souls of races,

    and building up a whole new
    world - world of Islam.

    "The closer we examine this
    development the more extraordinary does it

    appear. The
    other great religions won their way slowly, by painful


    struggle and finally triumphed with the aid of powerful monarchs
    converted

    to the new faith. Christianity had its
    Constantine, Buddhism its Asoka,

    and Zoroastrianism its
    Cyrus, each lending to his chosen cult the mighty

    force of
    secular authority. Not so Islam. Arising in a desert land


    sparsely inhabited by a nomad race previously undistinguished in human

    annals, Islam sallied forth on its great adventure with the
    slenderest

    human backing and against the heaviest material
    odds. Yet Islam triumphed

    with seemingly miraculous ease,
    and a couple of generations saw the Fiery

    Crescent borne
    victorious from the Pyrenees to the Himalayas and from the


    desert of Central Asia to the deserts of Central Africa."


    --A.M.L. Stoddard, quoted in ISLAM - THE RELIGION OF ALL PROPHETS,

    Begum Bawani Waqf, Karachi, Pakistan, p. 56.

    "Islam
    is a religion that is essentially rationalistic in the widest


    sense of this term considered etymologically and historically. The

    definition of rationalism as a system that bases religious beliefs
    on

    principles furnished by the reason applies to it
    exactly . . . It cannot

    be denied that many doctrines and
    systems of theology and also many

    superstitions, from the
    worship of saints to the use of rosaries and

    amulets, have
    become grafted on the main trunk of Muslim creed. But in


    spite of the rich developments, in every sense of the term, of the

    teachings of the Prophet, the Quran has invariable kept its place
    as the

    fundamental starting point, and the dogma of unity
    of God has always been

    proclaimed therein with a grandeur,
    a majesty, an invariable purity and

    with a note of sure
    conviction, which it is hard to find surpassed outside

    the
    pale of Islam. This fidelity to the fundamental dogma of the religion,

    the elemental simplicity of the formula in which it is enunciated,
    the

    proof that it gains from the fervid conviction of the
    missionaries who

    propagate it, are so many causes to
    explain the success of Muhammadan

    missionary efforts. A
    creed so precise, so stripped of all theological


    complexities and consequently so accessible to the ordinary
    understanding

    might be expected to possess and does indeed
    possess a marvelous power of

    winning its way into the
    consciences of men."

    Edward Montet, "La Propagande
    Chretienne et ses Adversaries Musulmans,"

    Paris, 1890;
    Quoted by T.W. Arnold in THE PREACHING OF ISLAM, London,


    1913, pp. 413-414.

    "I am not a Muslim in the usual sense,
    though I hope I am a "Muslim" as

    "one surrendered to God,"
    but I believe that embedded in the Quran and

    other
    expressions of the Islamic vision are vast stores of divine truth

    from which I and other occidentals have still much to learn, and
    'Islam is

    certainly a strong contender for the supplying
    of the basic framework of

    the one religion of the
    future.'"

    --W. Montgomery Watt, ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY
    TODAY, London, 1983, p.

    ix.
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