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Madras Lectures on Islam ( No. 2) the Cultural Side Of Islam

1927

The division between this world and the other vanishes for the true Muslim since Allah is the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth the Sovereign of this world just as much as of the others. [...]. and the West but righteous is he who believeth in Alla and the Last Day and the Angels an the Scripture an the Prophets and giveth his wealth for love of Him t kindred and to orphans and to the needy and the hom.( less and to beggars and to set slaves free ; and those wIr are regular in prayer and pay the poor their legal portion And those who keep their promise when they make onf and the pers [...] In Syria the Christians used to speak of the times of the first four Khalifas and of the Omayyad dynasty as the golden age of Muslim magnanimity ; which struck mt then as curious because the Omayyads are generally given a bad name on account of the personal character of some Khalfas of that house but especially of the cruel tragedies which marked its rise to power. [...] Some of the greatest rulers saints and sages in Islam have been men as black as coal like Jayyash the saintly king of Yaman in the period of the Abbasid36 decline and Ahmad Al-Jabarti the great historian of Egypt in the time of Arnaut Mohammad Ali founder of the Khedivial dynasty. [...] Alghazilar the warriors of Islam are still the heroes and 13(.1" the bloody shroud " is still the guerdon of the bravest of the brave ; but the Jihad which is celbrated is no longer in defence of a dying empire it is the true Jihad of Islam the Jihad of human freedom human progress human brotherhood in allegiance to Allah.
philosophy religion
Pages
196
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143666
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-iii unknown view
First Lectere Islamic Culture
1-22 unknown view
Second Lecture Causes of Rise and Decline
23-47 unknown view
Third Lecture Brotherhood
48-65 unknown view
Fourth Lecture Science Art and Letters
66-85 unknown view
Fifth Lecture Tolerance
86-114 unknown view
Sixth Lecture The Charge of Fatalism
115-134 unknown view
Seventh Lecture the Relation of the Sexes
135-160 unknown view
Eighth Lecture “the City of Islam.”
161-193 unknown view

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