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The Islamic Review May 1938

1938

Mysterious however are the ways of the Lord! The stone which the builders rejected the same is become the head of the corner." Ishmael and his descendants were rejected and forgotten by the other branch of the family who imprinted mark after mark on the religious history of mankind. [...] Similarly the replacing of the black stone the only remnant of the building erected in an unknown antiquity in which the Prophet took the leading part in his early youth was it seems a 164"EID-UL-AZHA SERMON (1356 Ail.) symbolical reference to the remarkable advent of the Ishmaelite Prophet Muhammad whose family was a sort of rejected stone in the general structure of the Hebrew tradition [...] The doctrine of T aw h d (monotheism) is the principle of permanent value in the structure of Islam and leads the modern age to grasp the significance of ethical monotheism." The theory of ethical monotheism must be judged by its present value to humanity and by the extent to which it gives a reasonable picture of the cosmos. [...] His conception of the Unity of God is comprehensive enough to meet all the higher demands of modern man and "suggests freedom and breadth and progress and elasticity and joy." It leads modern science to discover the unity of the Divine Plan and method in governing the universe the unity of life of man and of religion and encourages the expansion of the human mind towards the removal of ignoranc [...] There is one other circumstance tending to kill the theory of borrowing." If it were a fact that the Qur-an :;s a copy of the Talmud or of the Bible how do the critics account for the several departures which the Qur-án makes from many of the earlier stories: The difference between the two verJions is in several repects so very marked and material Ciat the theory of "copying" would never ho
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Frontmatter
i-iv K.N. Ahmad, M. Ahmad view
A Declaration
161-161 unknown view
Eid-Ul-Azha Sermon (1356 A.H.)
162-173 Aftab-ud-Din Ahmad view
Muhammad my Master
173-181 Hamid Raza view
Is Islam a “Borrowed Feather”?
181-186 B.M.K. Lodi view
The Vindication of Jezyah
187-193 M.Y. Khan view
Islam and Polygamy
193-198 Mizanur Rahman view
What is Islam ?
199-200 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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