of Muslims against unbelief. And they should be presented with the theory as well as practice of Islam. All the prophets who came in this world with a message called out, “O people,” “O brothers,” “O

Royal Institution, London (1918- 23), and was rector of the University of Aberdeen (1930-33). 12. Islamic Thoughts, December 1961. 13. The Evidence of God, p. 130.

hadith further illustrates the meaning of the above-mentioned verse of the Quran: Prophet of Islam said, “Every moment God is ready to forgive one who seeks forgiveness from Him, is ready to help one who

held illegal in all religions and legal systems of the world. There is a tradition of the Prophet of Islam according to which one who committed suicide would have to face eternal Hell. I shuddered at this

was an old woman, she once met ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab, who had by that time become the Caliph of the Islamic Empire. ‘Umar greeted her and she returned his greeting. Then she said: “O ‘Umar, there was a time

placed at our disposal such a worldwide system of communication—a prerequisite for the realization of Islamic goals. 2. The second requirement essential to facilitating this task was complete religious freedom

learning revived in Western Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, scholars turned to Islamic Spain for the scientific texts. A spate of translations (from Arabic into Latin) resulted in the

philosophic. By the consensus of critical opinion, Ibn-Khaldun was the greatest historical philosopher Islam produced and one of the greatest of all time. In Book I of the Muqaddamah, Ibn Khaldun sketches general

to carry out that command without showing any reluctance. That is to say, in the first phase of Islam, the injunction

fundamental objectives, that is, to preserve and transmit the practical form or applied aspect of Islam from generation to generation. In the present century, the same purpose has also been achieved by