By

Allamah Muhammad Yousaf Gabriel

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THEOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAM

Every age has its own peculiarities, and every occasion has its particular demands. Naturally therefore, this our own age has its own peculiar problems and its own particular demand. The world today stands on the brink both of moral and religious breakdown as well as near atomic ruin. Despite the attempts for the revival of religion there may quite clearly be seen the hold of worldly, irreligious powers over the mind of mankind. Nor in any way the role of these powers in brining about the atomic annihilation of this world could be missed.

          Whatever might have been the mutual attitude of the followers of Christianity and Islam about the scriptures of each other in the past, the present circumstances in face of the atomic threat, and universal destruction warrant an attitude of mutual respect and cooperation. Such an attitude is exactly in accord with the teachings of these two books in question that is the Quran and the Gospel of Christ, and is the necessity of times. A united endeavour of the followers of these two books may prove far more efficacious in saving this world from the dreadful end in the flames of atomic hell, also in reviving the spirit of faith in a fast degenerating world, a world in which nations will be faced to herd themselves together against the all-devouring threat of atomic bombs and atomic radiations.

          As far as the identity between the views of the Quran and the Gospel is concerned, the quotations from these books may in this book be read, but as regards the state of Christian religion in its later history, my writings in this book are the mere echo of the Christian writers themselves. Research and application, however is my own. And though this book could not have been regarded as an exhaustive study of the subject yet it has enough to present the point in a reasonable manner.

                                                                        GABRIEL

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