Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 626
UNVEILING OF THE ‘UNSEEN' BY THE QURAN - A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE. Christian world which was to follow the discovery of the. Americas, the first two verses must be understood by way of contrast to apply to the fate of Islam. What had happened to Islam to earn this gloomy description by the year the. Americas were discovered? If we find the answer to this question no further proof would be needed to support our interpretation of the said verses. The year 1492 as we have pointed out before is the most outstanding landmark which separates the old world from the new. Can we prove that the downfall of Islam did reach its nadir in the same year so that any reader could easily recognise a clear link between the two? Yes we can and the verdict is not ours nor that of any other Muslim. The verdict is that of history evidenced by Christian historians themselves. The Chronicle of the. World has the following to say about the most distinctive feature of that year in relation to Islam: ‘After a ten-year campaign Granada, the only remaining Moslem state in Spain, has fallen to the. Castilian army. The surrender of the city is being hailed by Christians as the "most signal and blessed day there has ever been in Spain". Moslems are describing it as one of the most terrible catastrophes ever to befall Islam. 18 'Ferdinand and Isabella take Granada, the last. Moslem kingdom in Spain, which had resisted. Christian conquest for two centuries' 18. . This brought to end the unbroken rule of Spain by the. Muslims for seven hundred years. . After the termination of the Muslim political rule in 1492, there began an organized campaign by the Church to murder Islam. Though the Muslim domination had come to an abrupt end after an extended rule of more than five hundred years, the influence which Islam had built over the 588