The exalted Prophet selected by Allâhu ta’âlâ to spread this new religion was Hadrat Muhammad (’alaihi ’s-salâtu wassalâm). The section entitled Qur’ân al-kerîm and Bibles contains many explanations about how Hadrat Muhammad grew up, how he was given the first divine order, and how he began to spread Islam; hence, there is no need to repeat them here. We shall only add here facts not mentioned previously.
Islam is a true religion sent by Allâhu ta’âlâ and which Hadrat Muhammad (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) began to preach to his people forty-three years after his birth in 571 A.D. He conveyed a purified form of Christianity and Judaism, which had become corrupt and illogical due to the human interpolation in them. The name of this religion is Islam. And, of course, all of this was natural because as we have repeated again and again in this book, the unitarian religion, which had been known since the time of Adam (’alaihi ’-salâm), reached its final form with “Islam,” after Judaism and Christianity. A careful study of the other prophets’ lives and the religions they preached, which are written in Christians’ books, will reveal the fact that they, too, were originally unitarian (Tawhîd) religions, which, in its turn, proves that our argument that “trinity is an absurdity inserted into the religion of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ by Jews and Romans” is the plain truth.
The holy book of the Islamic religion is the Qur’ân al-kerîm. The Qur’ân al-kerîm is definitely the word of Allahu ta’âlâ. Whereas the other holy books were interpolated or changed in the course of time with human words inserted into them, the Qur’ân al-kerîm has remained in its original form since the time it was revealed and no words, even one, have ever been changed. The information concerning faith in Islam is the same as that in the religions of other Prophets, that is, “Tawhîd.” On the other hand, unfortunately, some myths and illogical scriptures were inserted into the other religions.
Today, the Islamic religion is mentioned with approbation all over the world. During the Middle Ages, however, scholars of the Christian religion attacked Islam blindly by calling it
‘Religion founded by the devil’ without picking up a smattering, let alone sufficient knowledge, of it to do so and, as we have mentioned before, the popes, who occupied the highest religious position in Christendom, organized crusading expeditions to annihilate Muslims. Only after the eighteenth century did European historians study the Islamic religion and gradually translate the Qur’ân al-kerîm into their own languages. Despite the fact that some of those translations were done by fanatical Christians, and, as a result, they were not exactly in accordance with the original Qur’ân, there were also reliable translations done by honest historians. On the other hand, there have been some translations of the Qur’ân al-kerîm done by Muslims. The people who read correct translations or interpretations of the Qur’ân al-kerîm and understood it, such as Goethe, Carlyle, Lamartine, Tagore and so on, who are among the world’s famous personalities, did not hesitate to reveal their admiration for the Islamic religion. Detailed explanations about their reactions can be seen in our books[1]. But now we are going to furnish some articles written by various statemen who came to Turkey after 1266 (1850) concerning the Islamic religion and Hadrat Muhammad (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam). =>
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CHAPTER : ISLAM
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