The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 393
The Holy Qur'an 393 knowledge of other subjects, in a miraculous manner. In this respect it has kept in mind logic, physics, philoso- phy, astronomy, psychology, medicine, mathematics, and the knowledge of composition, and has used them for expounding and explaining the knowledge of the faith, or facilitating its understanding, or for drawing any conclu- sion from it or repelling the objection of some ignorant person. In short, all these subjects are set out in the Holy Qur'an for the service of the faith in such an extraordi- nary manner that every type of intellect can derive benefit from them. . . . The third door of the understanding of the Divine which the Holy Qur'ān has opened is the door of spiritual bless- ings which can be called its miracle of effect. Every intelligent person knows that the country of the birth of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allah be on him] was a limited peninsula called Arabia, which was cut off from all other countries. Even a bigoted opponent, who has some knowledge, cannot deny that before the advent of the Holy Prophet [peace and blessings of Allah be on him] the people of this country led a wild and ani- mal existence and were entirely unaware of religion, or faith, or the rights of God, or the rights of man, and that through the centuries they had been steeped in idol wor- ship and other impure notions, and had reached the extremes of debauchery, drinking, gambling and other vices, and did not regard theft, robbery, murder, infanti- cide, devouring the substance of orphans or trespassing against the rights of others as a sin. In short, every vi- cious condition and every type of darkness and heedlessness enveloped the hearts of the Arabs. Then, it is also known that the same ignorant and wild and impi- ous people embraced Islām and accepted the Holy