Islam Rediscovered
6. The Creation Plan of God
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6. THE CREATION PLAN OF GOD
The Famous historian, Edward Gibbon, observed:
“Human History is little more than a register of the
crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.” Other
historians have also arrived at similar conclusions,
for the ideal existence envisioned by philosophers is
nowhere reflected in human societies. Orientalists
who have made an in-depth study of human history
have remarked that, as regards the human failure to
achieve the ideal society, Islamic history is no great
exception.
Orientalists hold that, although the history of the
first phase of Islam—known as the golden age—no
doubt presents a better picture than that of other
periods, it too fails to measure up to the ideal.
During the life of the Prophet, owing to the
antagonistic activities of the hypocrites internally
and the Jews and idolaters externally, Madinah, the
city of the Prophet, could never in any significant
sense be converted into an area of peace. After the
Prophet’s demise, and shortly after the first Caliph,
Abu Bakr, had been appointed to be the leader of
the Muslims, most of the Arab tribes revolted. It
