A Message of Peace — Page 35
M ESSAGE OF P EACE 35 That is: Corruption has appeared on the land and the sea. This verse implies that every nation, whether in a state of ignorance or whether it presumed itself to be wise, was not free from corruption. Thus it is established on the authority of all testimonies that the entire mankind, during the age of Prophet Muhammad (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) were they oriental or occidental, those belonging to the land of A ry a s or those who were dwellers of the Arabian desert, so also those who inhabited islands, had all become moral desti- tutes. There was not one among them whose relation with God was without blemish. Evil practices contaminated the entire earth. Why then cannot a man of sound mind under- stand this simple matter of commonsense that it was the right time and the right age, with reference to which human reason can accept, that an exceptionally eminent Prophet must be raised. As to the question concerning the reformation which this Prophet brought about with his advent, none can answer like a Muslim with reference to the overwhelming evidence of the great reformation brought about by the Holy Prophet of Islam (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). It is beyond the scope of a Christian, Jew or A ryan to answer this question with such clarity and with the support of such irre- futable evidence. The first phase of the Holy Prophet’s (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) reformation began with that of the Arabs. The Arabian peninsula was in such a hapless state that it was hard to refer to its dwellers as humans. Name an evil which they did not exhibit; name a form of idolatry