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canon isaac taylor
تقريره قائلاً:
Islam has done more for civilization than Christianity. Take for example the statements of English officials or of lay travellers as to the practical results of Islam. When Mohammedanism is embraced by a negro tribe, paganism, devil worship, fetishism, cannibalism, human sacrifice, infanticide, witchcraft, at once disappear.
The natives begin to dress, filth is replaced by cleanliness, and they acquire personal dignity and self-respect. Hospitality becomes a religious duty, drunkenness becomes rare, gambling is forbidden, immodest dances and the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes cease, female Chastity is regarded as a virtue, industry replaces idleness, license gives place to law, order and sobriety prevail, blood feuds, cruelty to animals and to slaves are forbidden. A feeling of humanity, benevolence and brotherhood is inculcated. Polygamy and slavery are regulated and their evils are restrained.
Islam, above all, is the most powerful total abstinence association in the world, whereas the extension of European trade means the extension of drunkenness and vice, and the degradation of the people ; while Islam introduces a civilization of no low order, including a knowledge of reading and writing, decent clothing, personal cleanliness,, veracity and self-respect. Its restraining and civilizing effects are marvellous. How little have we to show for the vast sums of money and all the precious lives lavished upon Africa ! Christian converts are reckoned by thousands, Moslems converts by millions. These are the stern facts we have to face.
These are the stern facts we have to face. They are extremely unpleasant facts; it is folly to ignore them. We ought to begin by recognising the fact that Islam is not an anti- Christian faith, but a half- Christian faith. Islam was a replica of the faith of Abraham and Moses, with Christian elements. Judaism was exclusive. Islam is cosmopolitan—not like Judaism, confined to one race, but extended to the whole world. Moslems acknowledge four great teachers Abraham, the friend of God ; Moses, the prophet of God; Jesus, the work of God and Mahomed, the apostle of God
أحبّتي وإخوتي وأخواتي
انتظروني في ترجمة ذلك
في جديد لقاء، إن كان في عمر بقاء.
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