Manifestation of Prophethood in the Present Day and Age

the call for truth. If present opportunities are appropriately utilised, the domination of monotheistic thought can be established by appealing to people’s good sense through written and spoken efforts. There is no need to resort to force of arms, as one had to in ancient times. The scientific revolution of modern times is, in fact, a byproduct of the Islamic revolution of the Prophet’s time. Through the revolution brought about by the Prophet, God brought certain factors into play. A process of historical change, finally culminating in the scientific revolution of modern times, was initiated. While establishing the dominance of monotheistic thought over polytheism at the onset of the Islamic era, God also created factors that would later enable monotheism to triumph once more over atheistic and agnostic thought. Before the coming of Islam, polytheistic thought had reigned supreme the world over. What polytheism comes down to is the worship of forms. The polytheistic urge in people used to make them turn in worship to any particularly striking or spectacular worldly phenomenon, whether it was the sun in the sky or the king on earth. For this reason, scientific research could not be conducted during the polytheistic era. As the historian Arnold Toynbee has pointed out, natural phenomena were considered objects of worship, so they could not possibly become objects of investigation. With Islam and the advance of monotheism, the awe in which worldly phenomena had been held collapsed.