Why Did They Become Muslims

eautiful ethical principles have preserved their pristine purity for
thirteen and a half centuries, without undergoing an iota of change.
Most of these facts are not known in a European capital city. What
makes today’s Muslims to be looked on as enemies of civilization is the
Europeans’ ignorance of these beautiful ethical principles put by
Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’. On the other hand, they do not seem to
have heard about that great Prophet’s ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa
sallam’ utterance, which reads as follows: ‘I am none but a human
being. When I communicate to you a commandment of Allâhu ta’âlâ,
accept it immediately. However, when I say something from myself
about worldly affairs, it is not a commandment of Allâhu ta’âlâ. I say
it as a human being.’ There have been great improvements in scientific
information since the time of Muhammad ‘alaihis-salâm’. The Islamic
religion commands that the techniques used in those days should be
modified so as to suit the new conditions. If this modification is
managed in conformity with the ever-changing requirements of the
time, the Islamic religion will not suffer any erosion, and it will always
hold the limelight as a civilized religion.
“The Turks are so faultless in their benignancy towards the
votaries of other religions that many of the state’s scientific and
technical positions are occupied by Christian experts today. Then, why
don’t we consider religious knowledge and science on separate
platforms? As a matter of fact, we should not forget that in the west
religious and scientific matters were separated from each other
afterwards and it was with considerable difficulty that Christian priests
were curbed from exploiting the religion in their political
machinations. It was not a smooth business that Christians realized the
evils of exploiting the religion in worldly occupations. Yes, the
commandments of Allâhu ta’âlâ cannot be changed. The principles of
worship, justice and morals communicated have to be maintained. For
instance, the Church of Scotland declared that it would be sinful to
play the organ in a church and announced that those who allowed the
organ in their church would go to Hell. This reaction of the church
shows that it would be wrong to attenuate the solemnity of the
religious matters with scientific instruments that are used for worldly
pleasures. On the other hand, the Ottoman counterparts of the
European hidebound conservatives resisted against scientific and
cultural renovations, rejected every new scientific discovery by saying
that it was ‘a devilish contrivance’, and thus slandered the Islamic
religion. In the course of time, Muslims will certainly rid themselves of
these ignorant bigots.
“Europeans consider themselves as cruel and truculent people.
However, all the stories told for the purpose of demonstrating their
so-called cruelties come from mediaeval sources. Now let us put our
hand on our heart and do some conscientious reasoning: Did not
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