Muhammad a Prophet For all Humanity
7. The Revolution of the Prophet
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So it is with the Islamic revolution. It likewise
comes from recognizing the opportunities that God
has created, and using them well. True Islamic
revolution does not emerge from haphazard action.
The initial Islamic revolution was achieved by a few
of God’s servants fitting their own wheel in with
God’s. Our sacrifices of modern times, on the other
hand, have all gone amiss because we
have not
followed God’s scheme. We have trodden the path
of our own desires, seeking to achieve by futile and
irrelevant protests what can only come from wise
use of the opportunities that God has afforded us.
The generations following Adam, the first man on
earth, all worshipped one God. Mankind, as the
Qur’an says, “were one community.”
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So the
situation continued for a few centuries, but soon
worship of worldly phenomena, or polytheism,
became prevalent. People found it difficult to focus
their attention on an invisible
God,
so they focused
it elsewhere, on visible objects, and in so doing
reduced belief in God to the lowly and unimportant
status of an abstract creed. It was at this time that
the sun, moon and stars became objects of worship,
and the mountains and oceans came to be thought
