The Islamic Review February 1939

Selecting one of them to the exclusion of the others or even putting wrong values on any of them and trying with all the violence of animal nature to mould the destiny of humanity on the lines of the chosen system is indeed the greatest sin against the social life of humanity. [...] One of the strangest things in the history of the human race is the fact that it was by an Arab orphan a son of the desert that the way to the knowledge of God was discovered. [...] Muhammad crushed the vain pride of the Arabs in their ancestry taught them the means of a better life showed them the falseness of their belief in idols stars and witchcraft and preached the religion of one God 71"ISLAMIC REVIEW the most reasonable and the highest idea which humaity may have of the Creator of the universe. [...] (6) They say that the origin of the Universe began with the formation of incandescent gas that this in turn gave rise to the nebulae that these nebulae formed the countless Stars and Sun that the planets of the Solar sytem were formed from the sun being portions detached from it by the approach of another sun that the whole universe is expanding at a terrific pace that the groups of star-cl [...] (1 o) The reference to the prostration of the stars and trees (LV-6) is a hint evidently of the revolution of the earth and the stars.