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THE SOLIDARITY OF
ISLAM.
but
" They seek to extinguish God's light 'with their mouths ;
God 'will perfect His light, though the infidels be averse
thereto. It is He Who hath sent His Apostle with the
direction, and the religion of truth, that He may exalt the
same above every religion, although
the idolators be averse
thereto."
There are two closely associated characteristics
of Islam which impress every
Rigidity student :--the immovable rigidity
which
paralyzes individual action as well as social
and religious progress and for ever holds
its professors arrested at the stage and
within the limit of Arab conditions as they
were thirteen centuries ago ; and the
Solidarity solidarity
of the world of Islam as it exists
to-day.
It is at this point that the contrast
between the methods of Jesus and of
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