"Do not read to contradict and refute,
nor to believe and take it for granted,
but to weigh and consider."
Preface
Chapter 1: The Divine Guidance
Chapter 2: Other Gods
Chapter 3: Sabotage of Islam
Chapter 6: Conspiracy to Evolve a Single Religion, Based on Truths Common to All Religions
I picked up the idea and felt the necessity of writing this book from the letter sent to me by Prof. J.M.S. Baljon of the Leyden University in October 1972. In response to my presenting him my book entitled, Phenomena of Nature and the Quran. Dr. Baljon, while appreciating my book, pointed out to me the views of another Muslim writer on the Quranic interpretations, in the following words "Curiously enough I received a month ago from a colleague and co- religionist of you: Dr. Muhammad Kamil Husayn, a surgeon in Cairo, a book he just had published with excurses of Koranic exegesis. In this work calledal-Dhikr
considers it pure stupidity to produce so-called al-Tafsir al- Ilmi..." I have not had the occasion of reading the work of Dr. Kamil, but I was not the least surprised to note his views. Since the face of Islam has been changed by the conspiracies which I am going to describe in the following pages, there is no dearth of such Muslims who consider that the words of Quran have got "hidden meanings" and are meant to be used only for their magic effect. Such people do not consider the Quran as a book of Knowledge. Here in my present work I have explained the vicious conspiracies of varied types and origin hatched from time to time against the holy Quran. Such conspiracies not only transformed the vigorous activity generated by the Quranic teachings into passivity; it rather changed the entire outlook on the life of Muslims. The passive Islam prevalent in the Muslim world today is poles apart from the dynamic Islam presented by the Quran. Belief in one God has been replaced by belief in a number of gods. The concept of Sovereignty of Allah in human affairs has been changed to
centralization of Ummat is lost. Instead of subservience to Allah, the Muslims today are subservient to Imams, Pirs, Faqirs, Mullas and all sorts of political and intellectual exploiters. The mission of the last messenger (s) of God was to release humanity from the heavy burdens and the yokes that were upon them (Al-Quran 7:157). The Rasool (s) achieved this goal, gave a practical demonstration of it and left behind him a pattern for the smooth development of humanity. But the conspiracies by the enemies of Islam broke that pattern and the Deen brought by the Rasool (s) changed into religion, and wherever Muslims were in power, it got bifurcated into 'church' and 'State'. As a result of it, the Muslims today are growing under the pressure of the same weights and are bound by the same yokes from which the Rasool (s) came to release them. The 'Pharoahs' or the political exploiters, the 'Hamans' or the religious and intellectual exploiters and the 'Qaroons' or the economic exploiters are again rampant as much in the Muslim countries as in any other part of the world. Now instead of one central organization and one code of life given by the Quran, as it was put into practice by the Rasool (s), there are hundred and one ways of life which have made the Muslim Ummat, now divided into nations raised on territorial basis, fall steep into a position of fear and dependency. The struggle to get out of it but, without the light of the Quran, fall to do so. The only hope of their escape from their present day plight lies in the reunion into a 'stable and well-knit Ummat' and this objective cannot be achieved unless there is a conviction that the Quran is the final, complete and the only message of Allah, now present on the face of the face of the earth, for the guidance of