Why Did They Become Muslims

ecame the teachers of the entire world and the guides of
civilization. Europeans, who were semi-barbarians in those times,
studied science in Muslim universities, and even Christian religious
authorities, such as Pope Sylvester, attended lectures in the
Andalusian universities. A number of scientific terms used in
European languages today are of Arabic origin, e.g. ‘Chemistry’
from ‘Kimyâ’, ‘Algebra’ from ‘Al-jebîr’. For it was the Muslim
Arabs who taught these sciences to the world.
Europeans were loitering around the misconception that the
earth was a flat space of ground surrounded with walls, when
Muslims explored that it was a round, rotating planet. The length
of a meridian which they measured in the wilderness of Sinjar in
the vicinity of Mousul astoundingly concurs with today’s
measurements. It was the Muslim Arabs, again, who protected
from extinction and annihilation the ancient Greek and Roman
books of philosophy, which were vehemently banned by the
vulgarly ignorant and bigoted priests of the Middle Ages, by
undertaking their translation. It is a fact acknowledged by
reasonable Christians today that the real Renaissance, (which
means the revival of the ancient valuable sciences,) came not in
Italy, but in Arabia, during the reign of Abbasids; that is, a very
long time before the European Renaissance. It is a shame, though,
that the giant progress suddenly lost its impetus in the seventeenth
century. What fostered this catastrophic breakdown was the
masonic and Jewish policy which was formulated to obviate
further scientific research on the part of Muslims by infusing
recessive notions into them, such as, “Everything made by
Christians is a heresy forbidden (harâm) for Muslims. Those
Muslims who adopt or imitate them will become disbelievers,” and
those religiously ignorant bigots who believed them. In recent
centuries the Ottomans were the greatest guides of Muslims in
knowledge. The entire Christendom launched political and
military offensives for the debilitation of that Islamic Empire in
order to reduce it to a state of disinterestedness towards the
improvements and explorations taking place in the world.
Crusading attacks, on the one hand, and the subversive and
separatist activities of the heretical Muslims employed by them, on
the other, sabotaged the Ottoman guidance in science and
technology. The aggressions coming both from without and from
within caused lasting damages to the Turks. They were no longer
able to make effective new weapons. Nor could they properly tap
the great resources in the possession of their country. They had to
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