Islam Rediscovered
10. Islam As It Is
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by which Islam wants to achieve all its aims and
objectives.
The Qur’an has this to say of the mission of the
Prophet Muhammad, may peace be upon him: We
have not sent you forth but as a mercy to mankind.
(21:107)
In the Qur’an and the
Hadith
, there are many such
references which go to prove that Islam is a religion
of peace, love and human brotherhood. However, it
is also a fact that in later times the image of Islam
has altered drastically. Now Islam has come to be
regarded as a religion of violence rather than as a
religion of peace. This transformation in the image
of Islam has not simply been produced by the
media. The responsibility for this falls on latter-day
Muslims, who have failed to maintain the original
image of Islam.
In actual fact, the mission of all the prophets right
from Adam to Christ was one and the same—of
establishing the ideology of monotheism in the
world, so that man might worship one God alone.
As we know, there came a large number of
prophets in ancient times, but the message of
