Islam Rediscovered
20. The Revolutionary Role of Islam
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The scientific way of thinking of the modern age
initiated in the early period of Islam, continued as a
process to grow, spreading from one country to
another until it reached the west where it saw its
culmination in the western world. In respect of its
reality, this scientific thinking is a revolution
desirable by Islam itself.
After this revolution, for the first time in human
history the idolatrous way of thinking has been
totally deprived of its ideological base. The concept
of the sacredness of natural phenomena is now seen
for what it is—a superstition, for modern scientific
investigation has demonstrated belief of this kind to
be baseless.
All that happened was exactly in accordance with
the divine plan, the Prophet and his companions
having been asked to carry out this divine scheme:
“Fight them until there be no persecution and
religion be wholly God’s” (8:39). This means that
there was no longer any barrier to man’s making a
choice in the way of God.
This was the final goal of the revolution brought
about by the Prophet Muhammad, may peace be
