An Invitation to Peace

An Invitation to Peace
and Jews, who takes on the whole of Arabia, and who re-enters his
hometown victorious over those who had made him and his followers
suffer for so many years, but enters with humility and peace, the
essence of the very call he had given them all those years ago, – could a
human being undergo so much and have not changed?
And yet pick up the Book that he was receiving throughout all this time
and look at the consistency of its message, the balance always of its
arguments and its teachings and laws, the fairness of its statements, and
the voice of reason that calls out throughout its many pages and verses
and chapters. Is it possible that a man could have been responsible for
that?
“Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam,
because as I read in the Qur'an I find those dynamic principles of life,
not mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the
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whole world.”
Prophecies
Everybody is able to predict the future sometimes, some even get it
right a lot of the time, but only one who has complete knowledge – or
is getting his information from one who has complete knowledge – can
get it right every time. And that, of course, is either God or a messenger
of God. One of the greatest signs of the apostleship of Muhammad is
the abundance of prophecies that he made, many of which came to
pass in his own lifetime. The Qur’an is not a book of prophecies but a
book of guidance, which is the primary purpose of all Divine
revelation. However, being from the All-Knowing whose knowledge is
perfect, we find many statements in the Qur’an which were made
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Sarojini Naidu, Lectures on The Ideals of Islam, see Speeches and Writings of Sarojini Naidu,
Madras, 1918, p. 167
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