The Rise Of Islam

[محمد الحبشي]

THE RISE OF ISLAM

HARUN YAHYA

[محمد الحبشي]

Preface

ISLAM IS ON THE RISE

During the last 20 years, the number of Muslims in the world has been increasing steadily. Statistics for the year 1973 indicate that the world population of Muslims was 500 million; now, it has reached 1.5 billion. Today, every fourth person is a Muslim.1 It is probable that the Muslim population will continue to increase and that Islam will become the world's largest religion.

The reason for this steady rise is not only the increasing population in Muslim countries, but also the growing numbers of people who are turning to Islam, a phenomenon that has gained momentum, especially after the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 (hereinafter referred to as 9/11). This attack, deplored by everyone, especially Muslims, has suddenly turned people's attention (especially Americans) to Islam. People in the West are talking a lot about what kind of a religion Islam is, what the Qur'an says, what obligations come with being a Muslim, and how Muslims are required to conduct their affairs. This interest has naturally brought about a rise in the number of people worldwide turning to Islam. So, the commonly heard prediction after 9/11 that "this attack will change the course of world history" has, in a sense, started to come true. The process of returning to religious and spiritual values, which the world has been experiencing for a long time, has become a turning to Islam.

Sometimes, when such developments are reported by the media, we see how extraordinary these events really are. Although sometimes presented as ordinary occurrences, in reality they are signs that Islamic morality has begun to spread throughout the world very quickly.

We must realize that these signs are either ignored in favor of other events, or cannot properly be appreciated by many people. However, it is of great importance that:

* Prominent statesmen quote the Qur'an in their speeches and take every occasion to express their reverence for it.
* They have begun to visit mosques and ask for detailed information about Islam.
* For the first time in history, the Pope has invited Christians and Muslims to fast together for one day.
* Christian clergy quote the Qur'an in their sermons.
* For weeks, the Qur'an has been the best selling book in Western countries
* There have been internationally televised special news programs, reports, and discussion programs introducing Islam.
* World-renowned newspapers have published articles about Islam and Muslims.
* The most popular books in libraries are those about Islam and Islamic history

[كونزيت]

Harun has great books on the web . They tell you that you have to think .

Thanks dear brother for this preface about the book .

[محمد الحبشي]

المشاركة الأصلية بواسطة كونزيت

Harun has great books on the web . They tell you that you have to think .

Thanks dear brother for this preface about the book .

Indeed my sister .. he has such a great way of writing

and I suppose you became one of his admirers .. at last

as I was .. a very long time ago

Ramadan Mubarak

[محمد الحبشي]

This book presents and evaluates these developments so that readers may appreciate their importance. On the one hand, this book will attempt to make believers more determined and resolved and, on the other hand, show the importance of telling everyone about Islamic morality. All of these developments have been revealed in the Qur'an: "When God's help and victory have arrived, and you have seen people entering God's religion in droves, then glorify your Lord's praise and ask His forgiveness" (Qur'an, 110: 2-3) and it is important to know that what this verse says will come true very soon. It is even happening now. God will indeed fulfill this promise. Therefore, believers must do whatever they can to take part in these developments.

For the last 10 years, the number of Muslims has been increasing throughout the world, and Islam has been growing. Today every fourth person is a Muslim. This number is expected to grow even more in the near future

(Above) A CNN program entitled "Fast Growing Islam Winning Converts in the Western World" pointed to the increasing number of Christians converting to Islam. An ABC program reported that the number of Muslims has long since passed one billion, and gave information on the basic tenets of Islam, The article below refers to the growth of interest in Islam particularly after 9/11

[محمد الحبشي]

Chapter 1



THE FALL OF ATHEISM AND THE RISE OF FAITH

Before looking at Islam's world-wide growth, we must examine another critical development: the collapse of atheism and the rise of faith. Almost everyone who has studied human history, particularly its philosophical and social aspects, will agree that the nineteenth century was an important period, for it was during those years that the first steps were taken toward the future spiritual collapse. Its most important characteristic was the growth of atheism (i.e., rejecting God's Existence) as opposed to theistic beliefs and religion, which had been generally dominant in the world until then.

Although atheism has existed from ancient times, the rise of this idea actually began in eighteenth-century Europe, with the spread and political effect of the philosophy of some anti-religious thinkers. Materialists such as Denis Diderot (1713-84) and Baron d'Holbach (1723-89) proposed that the universe was a conglomeration of matter that had existed forever and that only matter existed. In the nineteenth century, atheism spread even further afield. Such thinkers as Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72), Karl Marx (1818-83), Friedrich Engels (1820-95), Friedrich Nietzsche (1884-1900), Emile Durkheim (1859-1917), and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) applied atheist thinking to different fields of science and philosophy.

The greatest support for atheism came from Charles Darwin (1809-82), who rejected the idea of creation and proposed the theory of evolution, which gave a supposedly scientific answer to the question that had baffled atheists for centuries: How did human beings and living things come to be?

This theory convinced a great many people that there was a mechanism in nature that animated lifeless matter and produced millions of different living species from it.

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, atheists formulated a worldview that "explained" everything: The universe had not been created, for it had no beginning and had existed forever. They claimed that it had no purpose, that its order and balance were the result of chance, and that Darwin's theory of evolution explained how human beings and other living things came into being. They believed that Marx and Durkheim had explained history and sociology, and that Freud had explained psychology on the basis of atheist assumptions. However, twentieth-century scientific, political, and social developments disproved these views, for ongoing discoveries in astronomy, biology, psychology, and social sciences nullified the bases of atheist suppositions

Karl Marx (1818-83), Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) applied atheist thought to different fields of science and philosophy and caused this view to be disseminated