The Islamic Review February 1942

The Aryans and many other ancient people were Unitarians which can be proved by a careful study of the ZenAvesta of the Zoroastrians and the Vedas and the Upanishads of the Hindus and the teachings of the Buddha and Confucius. [...] Verse 38 of Chapter XIII of the Qur-an says : " To every age its own Book." j/.1 The Muslims believe that whereas the earlier revelations of God are enshrined in the sacred Books of the Prophets the Qur-an is the latestrevelati^i and has been sent to consolidate the fundamental truths of religion to the end that it might continue in the earth. [...] By causing a panic with 69"ISLAMIC REVIEW the threat of Saracenic military domination and dclaring that the Holy Land was being desecrated they succeeded in fanning the religious ardOur of Christian Europe into waging the Crusades against the Muslims in order to free the Holy Land from the infidels !" The cross appeared on the banners of the Crusaders as the sacred emblem of the religion for [...] In spiritual renaissance by analysis of the reseblance between the teachings of Christ and those of Muhammad the striking fact is made clear that Muhammad was indeed the first 'Protestant' and through successive stages of Reformation the Presbyterians Quakers the Covenanters and the Unitarian Church of Modern Christianity have come back to the purity of the original teachings of the Master [...] In the opinion of Rev! Forster Serat mountain is the home of the Saracens which he thinks to be a country of Sarat of which Ayal Sarah or Beni Sarah a town in Yemen in the south of Beni Yarn is the capital.(1) The ingenuity of the Reverend gentlman in deriving so ridiculously the word Sarat from Sarah the wife of the patriarch Abraham is quite uncalled for as Sarat in Arabic means the h