Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Second Fascicle

40— WHY AND HOW WERE MUSLIMS MADE
TO LAG BEHIND?
We see that in every age of history millions of people bearing
various different lineages of blood, speaking a variety of
languages and, attached to different customs and traditions have
established an empire, gathering around one belief or one idea,
paying no attention to such differences.
Chronologically, we come across the greatest, the most
beautiful of the empires or states established as such during the
Middle Ages. We know that great masses of people of various
races became one single ummat and established an Islamic state,
and then an Islamic empire, based upon the Islamic religion, the
one and only undefiled, unchanged religion. The basis that kept
this state and empire on its feet was the principles of Islam, such
as studiousness, justice, goodness and reverence, which were
commanded by Allâhu ta’âlâ. The power that took the Ottoman
Turks from the riverside of Sakarya to the gates of Vienna in a
short time was the lightsome way, the progressive way of the soul
and body: the Islamic faith, to which Sultan ’Uthman and his
children held so fast. Since there is no racism in Islam, each
Muslim is a brother to another.
If the Turanian Huns, who went to force open the gates of
France, the only fortress of Christian Europe, with a seven
hundred thousand strong army under the command of Attila [d.
168 years before the Hegira] had gone there after having been
honoured with Islam and had taken Islamic morals and the
Islamic spirit with them, would not Western Christians, who had
become disgusted with the oppression of priests and the tyranny
of kings, have embraced them, like the Christians of Damascus,
who admired the justice, the mercy in Hadrat ’Umar’s army, and
embraced Islam willingly? And what would have been the
religious make-up of today’s Europe?
The Amawîs (Umayyads) introduced the Islamic religion to
Europe through Spain. By establishing the universities of
Morocco, Cordova and Granada, they radiated lights of
knowledge and science towards the West. By awakening the
Christian world, they founded the basis of today’s technical
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