Islam Rediscovered
24. A Case of Discovery*
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practicality, is specially suited for the masses of
mankind and that it is with the masses that it
always had its most signal success and achieved its
greatest triumphs, the Rev. Marcus Dodd, D.D. in
his book on “Muhammad, Buddha and Christ” has
stated the following about the same: “The extreme
simplicity of the creed of Islam greatly favoured its
rapid propagation. No elaborate explanations were
required to teach the ignorant....The rude Negro
could understand it on its first recital....It demanded
no long novitiate....it was a creed for which the
human mind has an instinctive affinity, and which
has never roused abhorrence even in the mind of a
polytheist. To men who had begun to despair of
finding the truth amidst the bewildering subtleties
of a metaphysical theology, it was a relief to find
themselves face to face with a simple creed and to
be compelled to believe it.” (pp. 100-7)
Hence, I feel sure, that if a comprehensive Islamic
mission were started in Hyderabad (or any other
central place) to preach the simple and sublime
truths of Islam to the people of Europe, America
and Japan, there would be such a rapid and
enormous accession to its ranks as had not been
