have failed to convince and hold our youth, and we are facing a new
time of Ignorance, a fresh 'Jahiliyyah', as the Arabs or Muslims would
state it. Whether this is because Western values are basically false
or that some form of dry rot has infected our communications media,
the fact remains that we are facing a real crisis throughout the
Western world.
This process is the opposite of the great eighteenth-century movement,
which was called the Enlightenment, when Western Europe andNorth
Americaseemed to be shaking off their age-old prejudices.
For Muslims it also forms a contrast to the startling period when the
Prophet Muhammadsallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam)may Allaah exalt his
mention( led his arid peninsula out of chaos, both political and
social, into the leadership of the then known world. In fact, wherever
Islam entered during its earliest youth, the Middle Ages - especially
asWestern Europeknew this dark period in human history - simply ceased
to exist.
The Islamic Era:
Prophet Muhammadsallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallamestablished religion;
thereafter, the Islamic State or commonwealth developed slowly,
somewhat challengingly, during the decade from the year 622 of the
Christian era )CE(, or the Hijrah as it is called - the Zero year in
the Islamic calendar, until his death in 632, only ten years later.
By that time, instead of being a peninsula of mutually raiding
tribes,Arabiahad become a commonwealth, which raised new standards for
the world to adopt. All this occurred within the ten years after the
Hijrah or 'Migration' of the Prophetsallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallamand
his Muslim community from trying circumstances in Makkah to its new
capital of Yathrib or Madeenah as this city came to be called, two
hundred miles to the north in an oasis on the ancient caravan route to
Syria.
The life of the Prophetsallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallamthus lasted from
around the year 570 CE, when he was born, until 632 CE. He was called
An-NabiyyAl-Ummiyyor the 'Unlettered Prophet' in the Quran ]7: 157-
158[
What does this term mean? It means simply that Prophet
Muhammadsallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallamwas not college trained, as we
might expect him to be today; nevertheless he led his people formally
and sincerely to a better way of life. He was the most cultured and
concerned individual yet he had never been to school, only trained to
speak good Arabic by living as an infant out on the desert, where they
spoke the best Arabic in that era.
Almost immediately following his death, Islam burst upon the Near
Eastern and the world scene to take over the whole Sassanid empire of
Persia plus the southern tier of the Byzantine empire as far West as
Spain and Morocco on the Atlantic. This covered less than one century:
by the year 711 CE, or only eighty years after the Prophet's death,
Muslims were on the borders of France in the far West, and they were
entering India to the East.
Islam was termed the 'Middle Nation' ]Qur'an 2: 143[, the community
which was to follow the happy and balanced medium in all matters,
which was the stated aim of both Greek and Islamic society, and indeed
of any moderate one.
Basic Purpose:
The Muslim's basic purpose in life is to worship God in His Oneness
)Monotheism( and not through the trinity of the Christians, or the
duality and idolatry of other religions. The Muslim works through the
power of God's transcendence; in the words of King Arthur, as this
Celtic leader was preparing to enter the next world, he admonished his
Knights of the Round Table: "For what are men better than sheep or
goats, that nourish a blind life within the brain, if, knowing God,
they lift not hands in prayer both for themselves and those that call
them friends?"
God is thus Transcendent, 'Al-Ghaniyy' as the Quran teaches us; while
mere man is only 'rich' or 'wealthy' when this same adjective is
applied to him. Divine service or worship means giving 'worth' or
value to what we respect and revere. We Muslims know God; we meet Him
five times a day at least, and while we are on our knees before Him.
Today our New World is helping to lift the dead hand, which opposed
these concepts, and to spread the universal message of Islam. If we
all are willing to listen, then we may clear up some of the
misunderstanding, which has hindered Western appreciation of Middle
Eastern ethics and values, especially since Islam itself is now
pushing into the cities of North America, Great Britain and
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