The Creation Plan of God
Discovery of Islam
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its original scriptures in order to re-discover it in
its original form. In modern times many books
have been published with the aim of removing
misunderstandings about Islam. One title is as
follows: ‘Islam, the Most Misunderstood
Religion’.
But titles such as these are not in accordance with
the actual state of affairs. These books start with
the premise that non-Muslims have mistakenly
come to regard Islam as a religion of intolerance
and violence and then they attempt to remove
these misapprehensions. But the actual question to
be addressed is why there should ever have been
such misunderstanding. It has to be conceded that
it is based not on some allegation but rather on the
fact that the Muslims of today, in almost every
country, repeatedly display violence and
intolerance towards others. They have adopted
this course of action in the name of Islamic
movements or Islamic
Jihad.
Were Muslims to do
so in the name of their own communal interest
and people attributed that to Islam, this would
amount to misunderstanding based on an
allegation. But when Muslims themselves
