“History bears a testimony to the fact that there has never been a spell, however brief, during the past one and a half thousand years when the message of Islam was eclipsed or its teaching were engulfed by heresy, and the Islamic consciousness became dormant enough to accept a contaminated faith. Whenever an effort was made from any quarter whatsoever to distort the tenets of Islam, pervert or falsify its teaching, or it was attacked by sensist-materialism, some one invariably came forward to accept the challenge and fought it out to the grief of Islam’s adversary. History records many a powerful movement, which had once posed a danger to Islam, but now it is difficult to find out even the true impact of its thought. Only a few persons know today what Qadriyah (Rationalists believing infree will), Jahmiyah (Determinists), ‘Itizal’ (Dissenters), Creation of the Quran, Existentialist Monism, Din-i-Ilahi etc., exactly mean, although these represented, at one time or the other, very important schools of thought and, with most powerful imperialist powers of their day and some extremely learned and able persons at their back, they had threatened to stifle Islam. Finally, however, it was Islam, which gained ascendancy over these contending forces. These powerful movements are known today as simply different schools thought and are to be found now in philosophical and dialectical treatises. This tradition of struggle against un-Islam, the spirit to preserve and renovate the pristine teachings of the faith and the effort to infuse people with a revolutionary spirit to re-assert the divine message are as old as Islam itself..” 3
Islamic Inlightment
He is Allah the Creator the Evolver the Bestower of Forms (or colors). To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names: Whatever is in the heavens and on earth doth declare His Praises and Glory: and He is the exalted in Might the Wise.
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