Islam Rediscovered
7. Discovery of Islam
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done so, they would certainly, have succeeded in
finding role models for all human positions
including that of modesty. They would further have
realized that it is not the political but the ideological
spread of Islam through peaceful
da‘wah
work that
the Muslim Ummah
has to struggle for everywhere
and under all circumstances.
Contrary to the prevalent misconception that Islam
failed to provide its followers with any model of a
low-key position, an unbiased study of the
Prophet’s biography will reveal that up till the
conquest of Makkah in the 8th A.H., 20 of the 23
years of his life as a Prophet, were spent in exactly
what is nowadays termed a state of modesty. When,
chronologically, more than three-quarters of the
Prophetic mission portrays a picture of humility,
what is it that makes one remark that there is no
Islamic model for Muslim minorities in India or
elsewhere? The fact is that such people are so
overwhelmed by the political glory built up during
the later period of Muslim history, that their eyes
are totally blinded to the glory of the modesty in the
life of the Prophet.
