Real Revolution — Page 136
136 ing replaced in the curriculum by another was by a. Muslim scholar. . Due to ignorance there is an impression among our people that the Muslims have borrow. ed from the West in many things, whereas the fact is that the Muslims have not borrowed from the Christians, the case being quite the reverse. . The European Christians have borrowed, even stolen, extensively from the works of Muslim scholars, though the Muslims in general know nothing about these things, not being very conversant with these works. In fact the Muslims of these days have let all these sciences and branches of knowledge slip out of their hands, while the Christians have taken care to master them, and even to add to them in the natural course of time, so that the sciences developed by our fathers have become unrecognisable for us today. In fact the present day decline of the Muslims has gone to such an extent that now they have no religion, no politics and no culture except a desire to ape the. West. The Holy Quran still contains all those things which the early Muslims adopted to make such astonishing progress; but in the hands of the Muslims of our own day the Holy Quran is no more than a closed book, while for everything they look to the West, like the helpless fledgeling of spariow waiting with an open