Nineteenth and twentieth century : During the 19th and 20th centuries, numerous personalities criticized Muslims and Islam.-4.
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Sub : Nineteenth and twentieth century :
During the 19th and 20th centuries, numerous personalities criticized Muslims and Islam.
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The Victorian orientalist scholar Sir William Muir criticised Islam for what he perceived to be an inflexible nature, which he held responsible for stifling progress and impeding social advancement in Muslims countries.
The following sentences are taken from the Rede Lecture he delivered at Cambridge in 1881 :
Some, indeed, dream of an Islam in the future, rationalised and regenerate.
All this has been tried already, and has miserably failed.
The Koran has so encrusted the religion in a hard unyielding casement of ordinances and social laws, that if the shell be broken the life is gone.
A rationalistic Islam would be Islam no longer.
Sir William Muir. Scottish Scholar and Statesman (1819-1905)
The contrast between our own faith and Islam is most remarkable.
There are in our Scriptures living germs of truth, which accord with civil and religious liberty, and will expand with advancing civilisation.
In Islam it is just the reverse. The Koran has no such teaching as with us has abolished polygamy, slavery, and arbitrary divorce, and has elevated woman to her proper place.
As a Reformer, Muhammad did advance his people to a certain point, but as a Prophet he left them fixed immovably at that point for all time to come.
The tree is of artificial planting.
Instead of containing within itself the germ of growth and adaptation to the various requirements of time and clime and circumstance, expanding with the genial sunshine and rain from heaven, it remains the same forced and stunted thing as when first planted some twelve centuries ago.
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JAIHIND.
To be continued...
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