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1 8 Islam<br />
and surroundings ; also, it is probably wise,<br />
that until we know and are able to sympathize<br />
with the Arabic character, we of the<br />
West should say<br />
little in way of condemnation,<br />
all the more that condemnation of<br />
the is<br />
Prophet not the method to win men<br />
from his<br />
allegiance.<br />
Personal There is a far more important quesr^i<br />
*<br />
tion which may not be passed over. Did<br />
1<br />
Muhammad realize the personal claim involved<br />
in his<br />
religious message Was<br />
his soul so pre-occupied with the grand<br />
Idea that his own relation to it was<br />
not at first<br />
apparent For,<br />
it cannot<br />
be forgotten<br />
that from the beginning the<br />
second Article of the Muslim Creed was<br />
inherent in the first. God is known as<br />
God to the Muslim only because the<br />
Apostle of God has proclaimed Him to be<br />
God. Muhammad is the Revealer of God,<br />
and God is God. This is the true and<br />
inevitable<br />
order.<br />
This claim, as a foundation of belief, was