Why Did They Become Muslims

and lead the entire world by personal example in science, as well
as in belief and morals.
The Qur’ân al-kerîm possesses a third miracle. Let us observe
it.
The pre-Islamic Arabia was a desert inhabited by wandering,
semi-barbarous Bedouins. They were idolatrous heathens. They
led a primitive life. They practiced the horrible custom of burying
their daughters alive. Because the so-called peninsula did not
occupy any of the world’s important passageways, the universally
known invaders, such as Alexander the Great, the Persians and
the Romans, who fought against whoever happened to stand in
their way, were not even aware of the Arabs, nonetheless for
fighting with them. Therefore the Arabs were not smeared with
the immoralities, the cruelties, and the rogueries practised by the
Iranians and Romans. They preserved their manly and naive
manners. That incompetent and wretched, but pure and
unsophisticated nation, under the leadership of Muhammad
‘alaihis-salâm’, and with the guidance of the Qur’ân al-kerîm
which he brought to them, underwent a sudden transformation,
attained the zenith of civilization, and with an extraordinary effort
developed into an astoundingly powerful Islamic state including
Turkistan and India in the East within its borders, in thirty years’
time. They achieved gigantic improvements in knowledge, in
science and in civilization, and explored many facts unknown until
that time. They reached the highest levels in all branches of
knowledge such as science, medicine and literature. As we have
mentioned earlier in the text, they were so much advanced in
knowledge that the Andalusian universities afforded an education
even to Popes, and people from all parts of the world raced to this
country to get their shares from the teachings its educational
institutions dispensed. The following comments have been
paraphrased from The Spiritual Development of Europe, by John
W. Drapper, an impartial historian who wrote about that epoch in
Europe: “Europeans of that time were barbarians in the full sense
of the word. Christianity had proven short of saving them from
barbarism. What Christianity had failed to do Islam managed.
The Arabs who came to Spain taught them how to wash
themselves first. Then they relieved them of the tattered and
lousy animal hides with which they had been covering their
bodies, and gave them clean and lovely clothes to wear. They built
houses, villas, and palaces. They educated the natives of the land.
They established universities. Religious bigotry aggravated by
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