Why Did They Become Muslims

the ancient civilization, and thus turned the earth into a dark heap
of ruins. However, after Islam’s appearing and spreading over the
world, the works of art belonging to the ancient civilizations were
recovered by Muslims, who raked into the ancient scientific
knowledge, enriched it with their new discoveries, began to teach
them in the Islamic universities they had established, promoted
industry and trade, and thus guided humanity to peace and
welfare. Because science and medicine were peculiar only to the
Muslims, Pope Silvester II received his education in the
Andalusian Islamic University, and Sancho, a king of Spain,
applied to the Muslim doctors to receive treatment. Muslims were
the true composers of Renaissance, which was the commencement
of a new era. This fact is admitted by all the conscientious
European men of knowledge today.
The best explanation of what Christianity brought to humanity
came from the German philosopher Nietsche:
“The Christian pessimism that imbues an ugly and evil world
has made the world really ugly and evil.”
As for the second assertion of missionaries, i.e. today’s
flourishing Christians versus the poor and destitute people living
in Muslim countries; it is true, yet it has nothing to do with
religion. Any person with common sense will see that the
privations that Muslims have been suffering today cannot be
imputed to the great but neglected religion of Muslims, Islam, if
not to those people who do not know the essentials of this
religion, or who are remiss in practising them though they know
them. And also he will see that the scientific improvements that
Christians have been enjoying are due not to the Holy Bible,
which is the kind of a book you have seen above, but to their own
laborious efforts, integrity, and determination, which they have
learned from the Qur’ân al-kerîm [1] and practised by holding fast
to its lightsome principles though they do not believe in it. Our
religion repeatedly commands to work, to be honest, to have
determination, and to learn everything; those who neglect this
commandment will no doubt incur the wrath of Allâhu ta’âlâ. In
fact, Muslims are lagging behind not because they are not
[1] or from the few Christians who examined the Qur’ân al-kerîm or the
works of Islamic scholars, who, it goes without saying, had an
education based on the Qur’ân al-kerîm and wrote their books in the
light of the Qur’ân al-kerîm.
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