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