The Call of the Quran
1. Divine Planning
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An article titled, ‘Islam’, penned by a Christian
writer
and
published
in
an
American
Encyclopaedia, has this to say:
Its advent changed the course of human
history.
It is quite true that after the Islamic revolution of
the first phase (of Islam), human history saw such
tremendous changes as had never before been seen.
The actual reason for all these changes was that the
continuity of polytheism came to an end, yielding
place to the continuity of monotheism.
Shirk
(polytheism) was and is the root cause of all evils,
while monotheism was and is the source of all
virtue. Hence the occurrence of this fundamental
change opened for man the door of all virtue, which
had hitherto remained locked.
Now the age of superstition gave way to the age of
science. The foundation of human discrimination
collapsed, giving place to human equality. Dynastic
rule was replaced with democratic rule. Where
natural phenomena all over the world had become
objects of worship, now for the first time they were
treated as subjects of research and investigation.
