The Creation Plan of God
Discovery of Islam
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done so, they would certainly, have succeeded in
finding role models for all human positions
including that of modesty. They would further have
realized that it is not the political but the ideological
spread of Islam through peaceful
da‘wah
work that
the Muslim
Ummah
has to struggle for everywhere
and under all circumstances.
Contrary to the prevalent misconception that Islam
failed to provide its followers with any model of a
low-key position, an unbiased study of the
Prophet’s biography will reveal that up till the
conquest of Makkah in the 8th A.H., 20 of the 23
years of his life as a Prophet, were spent in exactly
what is nowadays termed a state of modesty. When,
chronologically,
more
than
three-quarters of the Prophetic mission portrays a
picture of humility, what is it that makes one
remark that there is no Islamic model for Muslim
minorities in India or elsewhere? The fact is that
such people are so overwhelmed by the political
glory built up during the later period of Muslim
history, that their eyes are totally blinded to the
glory of the modesty in the life of the Prophet.
