Islam Creator of the Modern Age
1. Islam: Creator of the Modern Age
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1. ISLAM: CREATOR OF THE MODERN AGE
The year was 1965 and I was on a visit to Lucknow.
There I met a highly educated non-Muslim, who not
only did not believe in religion, but who also
considered religious discussions quite meaningless.
In the course of the conversation, he put this
question to me: “If Islam had never come into
being, would there have been anything seriously
lacking in world history?” I spontaneously replied,
“Yes. There would have been the same
shortcomings as existed before the advent of Islam.”
My answer silenced him. Then he had to concede
that from the historical standpoint, all that would
generally come under the heading of progress had
not existed in the pre-Islamic era. All this had come
to the world only after the emergence of Islam. He
still had his doubts, however, as to how all progress
was related to the historical event, which is called
Islam, or the Islamic revolution.
It is this historical question, which this book
endeavours to place in its proper perspective by
making a thorough investigation of the connection
