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SPREAD OF ISLAM IN SHORT TIME (II)

“Islam has rescued humanity from the disaster and nuisance of shedding human blood for idols. By bringing worship and alms in its place, it has imbued men with goodness. It has established the basis of social justice. Thus, without leaving any need for bloody weapons, it has spread over the world easily.

“It will be correct to say that no nation has ever come which is as adherent and as reverent to the cause of knowledge as Muslims have been. Many hadîths of Hadrat Prophet are a sincere encouragement of knowledge and are each full with reverence to knowledge. Islam has valued knowledge more than property. Hadrat Muhammad supported this attitude with his utmost energy, and his Sahâba worked in this way with full vigour.

“The founders of today’s science and civilization, the protectors of ancient and modern works of art and literature were Muslims of the times of Amawîs, Abbâsîs, Ghaznawîs and Ottomans.” Copies of the English book from which we have derived passages and written so far were seized by missionaries and Jews with a view to doing away with them. Jesuit societies, the earliest organization of missionaries, were founded in 918 [1512 A.D.].