GOD ARISES by Maulana Waiduddin Khan - page 7

God Arises
Preface
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thus been expressed by a certain atheist: “Science
has shown religion to be history’s cruelest and
wickedest hoax”.
But today, that very same weapon – science – which
was supposed to have brought religion to an
ignominious end, has at last, been turned against
the scoffers and atheists and we are, at the moment,
witnessing the same momentous revolution in
thinking as took place in the seventh century with
the advent of the Prophet of Islam. God himself has
razed the walls of atheism to the ground and
science stands ready to bear out His word.
This book is an attempt to describe and explain this
new revolution. It strives, moreover, to demonstrate
how 20th century research has, on academic
grounds, totally demolished the atheistic claims put
forward in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In the seventh century, God had opened up new
possibilities, which were at once availed of by the
Prophet of Islam and his companions. As a result,
monotheism attained intellectual dominance and
the polytheism of that civilization was banished
forever. In a like manner, through a modern
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