Islam Rediscovered
11. Non-Violence and Islam
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Islam, the result of which will necessary be in
favour of Islam.
A GREAT OPPORTUNITY
1.
Since direct argument cannot be applied to
religious beliefs pertaining to the unseen world,
these can be supported only by indirect or
inferential argument. Educated people had
therefore come to believe that religious realities
belonged only to the domain of dogma, and that
they were not academic or scientific realities. But
after the breaking up of the atom the science of
logic has undergone a change, and it has been
accepted that inferential argument too, in its
nature, is as valid and reliable as direct
argument. It has subsequently become possible
for religious realities to be established on an
academic level, i.e. exactly on the same level as
material or non-religious theories. (For detail,
refer to
Religion and Science
by the author.)
2. In ancient times when man observed the world,
it appeared to him that in nature there existed
things which were very different from one
another. This observation of appearance
