Spirit of Islam, Apr 2015

A T the time of the advent of Islam fourteen hundred years ago, the entire world was dominated by superstition at the ideological level and kingship at the political level. Today the world has been set free from both these things, the credit for this goes to Islam. For the first time in human history Islam set a process which culminated in the cessation of the age of kingship and superstition. In older times nature worship was the direct result of superstition. It was this nature worship which placed an obstacle in the path of man exploring natural forces and harnessing it for the benefit of humanity. Islam, put an end, all over the world to the worship of everything save one God. Something, which is an object of worship cannot be at the same time an object of investigation. That is why nature worship served as a mental block for all kinds of progress. When Islam displaced nature from the pedestal of worship and declared that, “Have you not seen that God has subjected to you whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth and has completed His favours to you, both seen and unseen?“ (THE QURAN 31:20) Only then the door of discovering nature and exploiting it in their favour was rendered possible. Islam started a process which culminated in the cessation of the age of kingship and superstition. This line of thinking was set off in Makkah, from where it travelled on to Madinah. Afterwards, on its way to Damascus and Baghdad, it reached Spain and then it spread on to the entirety of Europe. This process continued in history for about a span of one thousand years until the emergence of the scientific or technological revolution. Islam is responsible for the emergence of this new age, and the end of kingship. In ancient times the whole world was dominated by kingship. It was a system of absolute dictatorship (coercion) which had put an end to ISLAM IN HISTORY Ideological Power