The Islamic Review January 1942

It is a well-known fact that the weak and the destitute were mercilessly oppressed by the pre-Islamic Arabs and one of the chief objects of Islamic wars was the establishment of the reign of justice and security for all. [...] How vain the imagiation ! How far from the true path are all such ! For indeed the key and token and talidn'an of blessing is placed in the hands of all who will bear in mind the words in the verse which say : Do not exceed the limits." That is the test that is the heart of the injunction. [...] The conception of God leads to the conception of Society and from the unity of one follows the unity of the other. [...] " There is no piety in turning your faces towards the East or the West but he is pious who believeth in God and the Last Day and the angels and the scriptures and the prophets ; who for the love of God disburseth his wealth to his kindred and to the orphans and the needy and then wayfarer and those who ask and for ransoming ; who'observeth prayer and payeth the legal alms and who is of t [...] A German scholar Muller also testifies to the correctness of the account of the Qur-án when he says : This event (the Flood of Dyke) was not the cause but the consquence of the decline of the country.