Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 631
UNVEILING OF THE ‘UNSEEN' BY THE QURAN – A HISTORIC PERSPECTIVE 'It is stated that no less than three million of Moors were banished between the fall of Granada and the first decade of the 17th century. The Arab chronicler mournfully records the coup-de-grâce: "The. Almighty was not pleased to grant them victory, so they were overcome and slain on all sides, till at last they were driven forth from the land of Andalusia, the which calamity came to pass in our own days, in the year of the Flight, 1017. Verily to God belong lands and dominions, and He giveth them to whom. He doth will. " 24 'The Moors were banished; for a while Christian. Spain shone, like the moon, with a borrowed light; then came the eclipse, and in that darkness Spain has grovelled ever since. ” 925. Thus concludes Stanley Lane-Poole in his history of. The Moors in Spain. The sun of the Muslim political domination of Spain which had set in 1492, left behind, it seems, a gory dusk which took two centuries to finally dissipate the light of Islam from the sky of Spain, and turn it into a starless night. . As for the secular enlightenment brought to Spain by the outgoing Muslim civilization, it did not take that long to follow. . Thus the year 1492 opened two gates at once. Out of one the future of the Christian domination of the world marched in with such majestic glory. Out of the other departed all the past glories of Islam with heads hung low, each aching step inflicting unbearable agony. . The fourth verse speaks of mountains being moved from one place to another: وَإِذَا الْجِبَالُ سَيِّرَتْ * 81:4 591