The Message of Mohammed

According to the author even most of the writers on Islam in recent times who have approached the subject with the avowed intention of being scrupulously fair and just, have invariably ended with a “veiled traducement of Islam and its great founder – a traducement which by its insinuations and innuendoes has done more harm and greater injustice to both than the open sweeping condemnations of their declared enermies”. Addressing the Muslims of India in particular, the author states that it is not enough to get at the basic truth of a religion or extract permanent values out of it, for a religion, like all terrestrial things, waxes old with the passage of this general rule which time enforces on all things that be. He argues that the obvious way of meeting the ravages of time ink the matter of consonance with the life around. And to accomplish this successfully the sheer mechanical enforcement of the Prophet’s commands and enjoinments, the mere otiose observance of his rules and regulations will have to be replaced by something approaching a more living and willing from the past acting as an inspiration for the future.