The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 213
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. RAPID SPREAD OF ISLAM g. We recapitulate what we have written before about history. . According to our understanding, history is not just made by man alone, rather it is the handiwork of God and man. Under the overall framework of Divine attributes and His Providence and Grace and His reward or punishment, and as a result of beneficent or inappropriate actions, man, nations or civilizations rise or fall. The story of rise and fall of civilizations is interesting indeed. Here we want to say a few words about the rise of Islam and Islamic civilization. An amazing and unprecedented revolution occurred in the 7th century when. Mohammad received the Divine call at Mecca. He was blessed by. Allah and the Holy Quran was revealed to him, the perfect spiritual guidance for all mankind. Muhammad was raised by Allah as the last lawgiving Prophet - the greatest and noblest of all. Within his lifetime Arabs accepted the new religion of Islam and were unified into a dynamic new nation. So great was the devotion and zeal of the prophet's companions and followers that when the great empires of that time, the Persian Empire and the Byzantine empire came into conflict with Islamic Arabia, they were defeated with Divine help and. Islam spread to the corners of then known world in a few short years after the death of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him). Hadhrat Ahmad, the Promised Messiah has remarked that the rise and spread of Islam was very rapid and phenomenal and even unbiased European writers and scholars have admitted in their writings that it was an amazing revolution in history and it was Islam which was the holy force for it. To give an example of such European scholars, we quote below from a book with the title, 'An Interpretation of Islam' by Dr. Laura Veccia Vaglieri, former Professor of Arabic and History of Muslim Civilization at the University of Naples, Italy. . This book was originally published under the title of 'Apologia dell. Islamismo' by A. F. Formiggini, Rome, Italy, in 1925. . Professor Laura Vaglieri writes: 213