Volume 8 Surah 9 - Enjoy Islam

Al-Tawbah (The Repentance) | RELATIONS WITH OTHER RELIGIONSawareness may provide such people with a motive to mend their ways hoping thatGod will then replace their misery and suffering with happiness and bliss.This unnecessary reluctance and unwise acceptance of false appearances can onlydelay the initial march of any Islamic movement. Consequently, it serves the goals ofthe enemies of Islam for which they have given such regimes a false `Islamic’appearance. Such enemies are well aware that when Ataturk and his movement wereexposed and appeared for what they truly were, they could not serve any newpurpose after they had ended the last forum to unite the Muslims of the world on thebasis of faith. Indeed a very sly, shrewd and cunning Orientalist has tried to giveAtaturk’s movement a cover to hide its reality. In his book, Islam in Modern History,Wilfred Cantwell Smith tries to deny that the Ataturk movement was of atheisticorientation. He describes it as the greatest and wisest movement of Islamic revival inmodern history.120