📘 ❞ The Foundation of Islamic Faith ❝ كتاب ــ يحيى ادرر

عن كتاب The Foundation of Islamic Faith:


It was 610 A.D. when Arabia was to be blessed with the final message
of God, The Qur’an. But a question many people ask and many others have
never thought to ask is-What was the condition of Arabia before Islam? I
would like to introduce this to you using a compare and contrast method
so that you may see what many Muslim and non-Muslim scholars of Arab
history say was the biggest miracle of Muhammad. The fact that he came
simply reciting Arabic phrases which completely transformed the Arabian
Peninsula in 23 years- not to mention about a third of the civilized world
for centuries thereafter.
First of all Arabia was a well-known nomadic society in history.
People were engulfed in tribal prejudice. They were also known for being
a society enveloped in anarchy and lawlessness where crime ran rampant.
Islam came and changed the whole of Arabia and the lands around it to an
organized system of law with federal and local governments as well as a
court system based upon legal scholarship. Islam instituted a very strict
criminal justice system which brought harsh penalties for those who would
corrupt the society especially when encroaching upon the rights of others.
Regardless of what the modernists would like to speculate concerning this
fact, the truth is that the system’s application cut crime down by %90. All
tribal and any other racism was erased and the scale by which people’s
greatness was weighed was replaced with piety and God-Consciousness
regardless of tribe, gender, or skin color.
The Pre-Islamic Arabs were mostly pagan polytheists with a few
Jewish tribes and some Christian converts from the Roman rule in Syria.
In addition to them there were a few atheists and monotheists. All of these
groups were engulfed in the famous Arab superstitions and myths. Within
23 years all of the Arab lands, with close to a million people, had converted
to the purest monotheism of Islam. They left all superstition in exchange for
the belief in God’s omniscience and omnipotence and using His revelation
as the criteria to judge any beliefs or actions.
Before Islam, the Arab society deteriorated due to drinking and
gambling. This ruined the lives of many Arabs while only benefiting the
rich class who ran these trades. The Qur’an wiped out the presence of these
vices by categorically prohibiting them.


In the Days of Ignorance (before Islam), women were generally
seen as sexual objects and a disgrace to the family. The only exception
was in noble families where she was a prized possession because she was
expected to marry another noble thereby being a means for their lineage
to continue. Men married and divorced many women and prostitution was
prevalent even in the noblest areas. Islam raised the status of women who
are spiritually equal to men as servants of God. Women were allowed their
rights to own property, to take part in the political arena, to be leaders and
respected scholars and teachers of some of the greatest men in Islamic
history. The woman was turned into a respected spiritual entity. Islam
taught that the mother deserves more love and respect than the father and
that to raise two righteous daughters is a way for parents to go to Heaven.
Many of the rights given to women in Islam preceded the West’s
feminist movement by 13 centuries. The spread of ignorance which has
led to un-Islamic culture and secularism in Muslim lands has led to women
losing some of this respected spiritual identity and they have become
oppressed in many ways in the last few centuries.
These are just some examples of many. There have been multi-volume