Islam Rediscovered
24. A Case of Discovery*
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in some shape or other, while saints, apostles and
prophets, whose names are so deeply enshrined in
the sacred altars of collective humanity, have lived
and died for it. What is the verdict of our modern
Science on the Unity of Being?, that is to say, the
Unity of both force and of matter which compose
that Being. Dr. J.C. Bose’s recent researches have
only scientifically demonstrated what apostles and
prophets have invariably and persistently
proclaimed ever since the days of Adam and Noah,
Abraham and Moses. In Islam, we are not asked to
believe in three gods—in One as in the Athanasian
creed, or in thirty millions of gods and goddesses as
in popular Hinduism, but only in that one great
Being who is the Creator of the Universe, who is all-
knowing and all-wise and who is, at the same time,
also the most merciful and the most compassionate:
“Your God is one God; there is no God but He, the
Most Merciful. In the creation of the Heavens and
Earth, and the alternation of night and day, and in
the ships that sail the ocean, laden with what is
profitable to mankind, and in the rain and the water
which God sends from Heaven, quickening again
dead earth, and the animals of all sorts which cover
its surface, and in the movements of winds and the
