English book · UNDERSTANDING ISLAM

The Universal Message Of Islam

English book, p. 181

By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

The Universal Message of Islam The Arab nation had been living in the geography of Arabia for thousands of years. But no achievement of theirs was written in history. Before Islam, the condition of the Arabs was that they used to write poetry. They used to fight over small things. Sometimes a fight would begin among them, which would continue for hundreds of years from one generation to another. But these same Arabs, when a revolution of thought came to them under the influence of Islam, they laid the foundation of a noble civilisation. They came out of their limited geography and spread all over the world. Those people who were earlier considered unimportant made the greatest progress of their time in all important fields of knowledge. The Arabic language, which earlier was just a local dialect, became an international language. The reason for this was the universality and global nature of Islam. Islam opened their closed minds. They used to worship nature. Islam told them that nature is a creation and powerless. The only one worthy of worship is God, who is your Master as well as the and the Master of the whole world. ‘s Master. From this, they adopted the mindset that nature is not something to bow to, but rather to research and control. They used to divide people into Arabs and non-Arabs, Blacks and Whites, free and slaves, and high and low castes. Islam showed them that all people are children of Adam, and there is no difference between one human and another. From this, they developed a

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