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1 4 Islam
THERE is in the story of Islam an interest
it is
quite unique the work of one unaided
;
mind, the mind of a man unlettered and
ignorant, who came of an isolated people,
and who gained such knowledge
as he had
of the
great world from hearsay as he
travelled between Central Arabia and
Syria in charge of the merchant caravan of
his mistress. This man, morally very
frail
to our thinking,
is all but divine to two
hundred millions of men and women.
His word is final to them ; it alone reveals
God, it alone guides life, it alone commands
all Muslim rulers, and it defies Christianity
as no other power has done.
Muhammad lived six hundred years after
Christ,
his Faith came into existence in
full view of Christianity, it publicly claims
to be a higher revelation and to supersede
Christianity and the Christian nations
;
have not yet disproved the claim. The
attempt has not indeed been made, unless
we reckon the chivalrous and ill-fated