The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 301
300 ΑΙΝΑ-Ε-ΚΑMĀLĀT-E-ISLAM-DAFI UL-WASĀWIS arise and board this ark quickly, for the storm is in the height of its fury on earth, and all lives are in danger. If you are fair-minded, you will be the first to acknowledge the exist- ence of this storm. Rather, you have already acknowledged in several places that the present is the age for the appearance of the storm, from the ravages of which a promise to save the ark of Islam is contained in the Holy Quran. The Ummah has never before passed through a storm of this kind such as now; the world has never before seen such a war between religion and science which is happening now. Never before had ancient science and philosophy tried to efface Islam as contempo- rary science is seeking to do. Who can point out such intellectual and academic depredations in the past as we see perpetrated today with our own eyes? Who can point out in any past age the precedent of such a storm predicated upon rationality as we are now witnessing day and night? In which era gone by can these convoluted philosophies and atheistic attacks be seen? And where can we find these shrewdly serpentine uproars in previous ages? Where and in which previous age can these kinds of scientific and intellectual catastrophes be found, which Islam must now face? When and at which time have such difficulties presented themselves in any previous age, which are presenting themselves now? Do you not admit that the troubles and hardships of such intense level of intellectual debates which have now befallen Islam have never descended in any previous age? We, too, cannot find any such scene since the time of Adam to this day. Do you not agree that the calamity arising from the science and philosophy of today is a thousand times more serious and formidable than that which took hold of Islamic countries, arising out of Greek sciences? Do you not accept the fact that the enemy who has come into being today is more powerful than all the enemies of past combined, who came forth at various times? Again, how can you run away from admitting that the sacred prom- ise given in the beautiful words is a promise for these very days: