Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din

“ I have always looked upon Islam as fitted for the whole of the human race and for all times, and I have thought that the spirit of the great Faith which we profess with so much delight and happiness soars far above petty conventionalities. Moses and Jesus were for the Jews, but Islam is for Humanity without any distinction as to race or climate, and it is this which, in my humble opinion, will make the reasonable teachings of Muhammad prevail in the end. ”

“ These ardent but unscrupulous folk do not hesitate to spread false reports, well knowing them to be false, in order to advance their own views. I suppose they are quite well aware that their parrot-like cry about our worshipping Muhammad, having to have four wives, women having no souls and not being allowed inside the Mosque, are all figments of their own brains, and yet they go on in the cheerful belief that the Muslims, being a long-suffering and peaceful lot, will stand any amount of abuse without even a murmur of remonstrance. ”

“ In advancing our Faith we should, I think, only insist upon the essentials in the first instance, for these constitute the spirit of Islam—firm belief in the One God and surrender to His Almighty Will, belief in the messages Divinely sent Through His Holy Prophets, and the carrying into effect of the highest order of beneficence to all our fellow-creatures on this earth—and there is to my mind no reason to force any other belief on people if, by doing so, we run the risk of doing harm to our cause, turning them away from Islam. ”

“ There is nothing in Islam which is in any way revolting to our reason or our scientific discoveries, and I have been surprised and pleased in recent years to find so many people in all classes in England who have entirely abandoned a belief in any necessity for the dogmas. I have, for example, frequently described our simple Faith, and I have been gratified by the remark: "Why, that is my belief. Is that really Islam? If so, then I must be a Muslim." ”

“ A religion which is hide-bound and bigoted can never become world-wide, as we wish Islam to be. There must be great elasticity, so as to bring all the nations of the earth under that one beneficent canopy which I cannot help regarding as the protecting wings of the Almighty. ”

“ You do not attempt to answer my statements and queries as to the necessity of the belief in the Christian dogmas, the cruelty of the Christian Deity, and the beautiful idea that it is through the exercise of our reason and the march of science that we are approaching daily nearer and nearer to the Truth which cannot be very far from the Throne of God. To my mind Science is the very greatest ally to true Religion ”

“ Then there is no need of any outside aid, no introductions, no atonement; the key to heaven need never be missing, and the Muslim communing with his God at least five times a day is less likely to be engaged in the planning of any serious crime or any outrage on his conscience than one who rarely gives a thought to the real Presence of the Almighty. ”

“ No one will deny that a certain class of Christian Missionaries have brought discredit on Christianity by persistently vilifying the Muslim Faith and pouring contempt on our Holy Prophet Muhammad, who is constantly misrepresented and alluded to as "the false prophet." ”

“ For example, if you are going to tell the Esquimau that he must perform his ablutions with ice or snow, and take off his shoes before going into his Mosque of block-ice, you will make but few converts to Islam in that direction.
What is very easy for the Arab, with his loose and inexpensive garments and ample sandy desert surroundings, will be impossible for the busy city man clad in expensive clothes. The idea of kneeling down and prostrating in wet and muddy streets is an absurd one. ”

“ You have disregarded the fact that we altogether disclaim any pretensions to being "heathens." You have quite mistaken what Islam really is. We are devout and earnest believers in the One and Only God. ”

“ Statistics show that Muslim communities are singularly free from crime, and especially from crime of a brutal and cruel character, and this is, I think, to a great extent due to the Muslim's conviction that God is always with him, and also to the fact that alcoholic stimulants do not find favour, and indeed are expressly forbidden. Most people will admit that something like 90 per cent. of the crime in most civilized countries is directly or indirectly due to the abuse of alcohol. ”

“ The precepts to be found in Leviticus might have been desirable or necessary amongst a lot of savages thousands of years ago, but these teachings are quite out of place and ridiculous in the twentieth century.
In this age of reason it is intolerable to be asked to believe that certain forms and ceremonies are necessary to salvation. What I mean is this: that religion which insists that non-observance of forms or ceremonies is to be visited with the same punishment as the commission of sin, cannot be expected to find any favour with the mass of intelligent people. ”

“ Insistency on a blind acceptance of dogmatic teaching outside Duty to God and Neighbour is one of the weakest points in Church Christianity. The full use of Reason should be not only allowed, but encouraged, if a faith is to carry weight—there is no surer way of casting doubts than secrecy and forbidding inquiry. ”

“ In all the beautiful religions of the world there are the evidences of that strong desire of the created to return to and be at one with the Creator, and a compassionate regard for the welfare and happiness of other is a characteristic feature of the Buddhist, Christian and Islamic Faiths, and the last named, being the simplest and most free from dogmatic encumbrances, is most likely to be the universal religion of the world. ”

“ The Crescent of the false prophet is lifted over 222,000,000 of the human race, contending for the rule of the nations against the Cross of Christ—the faith that appeals to the worldly and sensual, through its impure mixture of religiousness and immorality. ”

“ It may be said that where God is there the devil cannot enter, and where the brain is never inflamed by spirits or wines there is a much better chance of a peaceful solution to difficulties and disputes. ”

“ Ingram know that no other Faith can be regarded as a rival? The fact that our King rules over more Muslims than Christians, and that there are over 220,000,000 Muslims in the world, should surely give him pause before making such an ex-cathedra statement. The Bishop is another example of those who are oblivious of the fact that Christianity came from the East, just as did the Jewish and Muslim faiths. ”

“ A man uses his eyes and brain to avoid falling into pits or over precipices, and no one finds fault with him for so doing, but directly he ventures to make use of his intelligence to detect fallacies and misleading dogmas there is a howl of indignation from all quarters. ”

“ Now that the popularity of thumb-screws, racks, and red-hot pincers as means of regeneration has died in this country, anyone is pretty safe from actual violence, whatever his religious opinions may be. ”

“ Here we have the injunction to pray for fresh wisdom from the Highest source, tempered by the admission that we cannot presume to ask for specific benefit, because God ordains all things, and must be the best judge of what is best for us. ”

“ Many quite good Christians assume that their own religious views must be the only ones worth considering, quite oblivious of the fact that other people have intelligence, and that 220,000,000 [1] Of the human family worship the One and Only God and follow the teachings of His Holy Prophets ”