God Arises
Preface
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which responded to the call of God’s messengers,
and that is why a civilization with its roots in
polytheism continued to dominate throughout the
known world of the time.
It was then that God sent His final messenger,
Muhammad, may peace be upon him, with exactly
the same message as had been brought by his
predecessors. As he was to be the last in the chain of
prophets, God decreed that he should not only
bring revelation to mankind, but should, with
divine assistance, be successful in extirpating the
practice of polytheism once and for all.
This event did indeed take place through the
instrumentality of the Prophet, and it is to this that
the above-mentioned biblical quotation alludes.
This monotheistic revolution continued to
predominate for one thousand years. Then history
witnessed a new age—the age of atheism. It was in
the 18th and 19th centuries that it reached its
culminating point. During this epoch, it was
asserted, on the strength of scientific findings, that
modern research had destroyed the foundations of
religion quite definitively. It is this claim, which has
