to the rest of the world. The End of the Superstitious Era Another basic change wrought by the Islamic revolution was similar in some respects to the scientific revolution of modern times; that is, the

abolish the coercive system established by the Sassanid and Byzantine empires. In the wake of this Islamic action, the coercive system was abolished forever in the major part of the inhabited world of the

non-violence. Success Through the Non-violent Method All the great successes of the first phase of Islam as well as the succeeding periods were achieved by nonviolent methods. Listed below are some examples

their community who are engaged in violence, nor even condemn them. In such a case, according to the Islamic Shariah itself if the involved Muslims are directly responsible, the uninvolved Muslims are also

by which to interpret human history is neither that of predeterminism nor of freedom. According to Islam, there is only one correct principle to interpret human history and that is the principle of test

world war. Now, I should like to identify and analyze the origin of the present extremist aspect of Islamic fundamentalism, which has made such a rapid descent into violence. The principal reason for it having

accordingly. This differentiation is a principle of nature and the course followed by the Prophet of Islam bears out the fact that he made full concession to it. One of the distinctions to be made is between

fact a reflection of the feelings or states of mind of the Prophet. The truth is that the Prophet of Islam, because of his high levels of realization, used to be constantly preoccupied by thoughts of God.

kind which is accessible to anyone with a scientific background. The traditions of the Prophet of Islam have predicted such occurrences. 1. According to a Hadith, “When the Qiyamah approaches, the sun will

under the heading of fitna. It was thanks to these traditions that, after the development of the Islamic sciences (in terms of which commentaries on the traditions were written), religious scholars arrived