From East to West

between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. This spiritual crusade was succeeded by a ‘natural crusade’ that took the form of the discovery of nature. Both spiritual crusades as well as the natural crusade, began with a negative mindset. Initially, the Western nations made a desperate attempt to defeat Muslims in the field of knowledge because they realised that they could not defeat them on the battlefield. God used their negative psyche as an incentive. God used the western people to discover the secrets hidden in nature to create a world that would prove to be a source of support for the Islamic mission. This event of support by the west was foretold in a verse of the Quran, “We shall show them Our signs in the universe and within themselves, until it becomes clear to them that this is the truth.” (41:53) This role of the western nations has also been predicted in a tradition as follows, “God will support this religion even by a fajir” (Sahih Bukhari, Hadith No. 3062). The word ‘fajir’ here means a secular person. The incidents tell us that the secular support refers to the people of the western world whose efforts have led to the emergence of modern civilisation and the discovery of the signs hidden in the universe, the physical world as well as within human beings. The psyche of vengeance that arose in the people of the