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abhorrent imputations are directed is like a diamond that has
fallen into the dirt. An evil person’s attacking Islam is not
surprising. What is surprising is that some people take these
groundless, absurd vilifications as true, believe them and fall into
calamity. These slanders are not worth answering. It is useless to
try to tell a blind person about the sun’s existence or to tell a
person with a sick bile or liver how sweet sugar is. Perfection and
superior things cannot be described to sick, dirty souls. Answering
them is intended to prevent others from believing them. Medicine
is for protecting the patient against death, not for enlivening the
dead.
Let us quote two of the millions of passages praising how
Islam illuminated the way of civilization. We will select them not
from the East, which he slanders and dislikes, but from the West,
which he admires. Mocheim [1]
said, “It is an absolute fact that
scientific knowledge, physics, chemistry, astronomy and
mathematics that has spread over Europe since the tenth century
was adopted from Islamic schools, especially from Muslims in
Andalusia (Spain), who were Europe’s masters. The Romans and
the Goths had struggled for two hundred years in order to capture
Andalusia; on the other hand, the Muslims conquered the
peninsula in twenty years. Going beyond the Pyrenees, they
advanced up into France. Muslims’ superiority with respect to
knowledge, wisdom and morals was no less effective than their
arms.” Lord Davenport said, “Europe is indebted to Muslims
today, too. Hadrat Muhammad (’alaihi ’s-salâm) said, ‘Dignity,
honour and superiority are measured not by property, but by
knowledge and wisdom.’ Islamic States have been administered
by the most powerful hands for centuries. Muslims’ spreading
over three continents has become the most honourable victory in
history.”
While an ignorant psychopathic person writes in his pamphlet
that the East was absorbed in and intoxicated with religion, these
non-Muslim but impartial writers, such as John Davenport, the
British Lord, wrote with their reason: “As the Muslims in
Andalusia were sowing seeds of knowledge and science in the
West, Mahmûd al-Ghaznawî was spreading knowledge and
wisdom in the East, and his country had become a center for
scientists. The Islamic Ruler increased production, and the wealth
[1] Jean Mocheim, German theologian and historian, died in 1169
(1755).
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