The Islamic Review March 1937

Is the history of Islam the history of the Bedouins sleeping in their tents ? One cannot help feeling sorry for an Editor who does not know that within one hundred years of the rise of Islam Islamised Arabia was at Granada on the one hand and at Delhi on the other glowing in life and vigour and the light of genius " and that Islam became the religion of very many nations of the world who one [...] The spread of Islam was effected by its Founder and his immediate followers not by the use of the sword but by the reasonableness of the Islamic doctrines which appealed to the human mind ; otherwise the Arabic saying that the pen of the scholar is sharper than the sword of the warrior " would not have found currency in Arabic literature. [...] Lo ! the harshest of all voices is the voice of the ass." (31 : 16 to 19.) The harshest of all voices is the voice of the ass. [...] The definite article " the " in the words " the Truth" can only mean according to the promise of God as recorded in the Qur-án the Book of the Truth. [...] When a current is said to be flowing from the positive pole of a battery towards the negative pole actually electrons are running in the opposite direction." So that it will be seen that the.electrons which are the progeny of the marriage of the two kinds of electricity proceed from the nagative pole or the female of the species.