God Arises
Review
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month in its stead; transferring, for example,
the observance of Muharram to the
succeeding month, Safar.
This clearly shows that, even in an age of ignorance,
the Prophet of God said nothing that ‘smacked of
ignorance’. Had his words emanated from his
unconscious mind, he would inevitably have
uttered such words as would have revealed such
ignorance.
Scholars, who study religion in the context of
history or the social sciences suffer from the
fundamental drawback of not looking at religion in
the correct perspective. In doing so, their views
become thoroughly distorted. They are like people,
who stand in a crooked position in order to look at
a square, and, viewing it from an acute angle,
decide it is rectangular. The square is still a square,
it is just that the viewers’ standpoint is wrong, or
merely irrelevant.
It was from just such a skewed angle that T.R. Miles
asserted that ‘the religion is the product of a certain
type of interaction between man and his
environment.’ The basic mistake these scholars
