The Islamic World Today (An Old and Rare Book)

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The Islamic World has been identified as a very united community in the history of the modern world. There have been disruptions also in this unity from time to time, but basically Islam is a great united force.

It was Marshal Lyautey who compared the world of Islam to a resonant box: the faintest sound in one corner of the box reverberates through the whole of it. Indeed, the Muslims represent a homogeneous unity unparalleled in the annals of history. The mainspring of their unity is their faith and the language in which the Koran was written. For thirteen hundred years hundreds of millions of men and women, different in race, nationality, intellectual and social standards have been held together by these two independent yet mutually complementary and indissociable forces.

Dr. Azhar Seikh, did his Master's in Social Work (MSW) from Maharashtra. He is at present working as an associate professor in NANDED. He was awarded Ph.D. in Social Work.

Dr. Seikh is a well known authority on Islamic Culture. He regularly writes on modern Islam. He has published many books on Social Welfare and Islam.

Dr. Seikh has widely travelled in India and has visited Ajmer, Rampur, Deoband, Jammu and Kashmir, Hyderabad and Aurangabad in India.

Dr. Seikh is associated with many governmental Committees on minorities and he advises social welfare departments of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.

The Islamic World has been identified as a very united community in the history of the modern world. There have been disruptions also in this unity from time to time, but basically Islam is a great united force.

It was Marshal Lyautey who compared the world of Islam to a resonant box: the faintest sound in one corner of the box reverberates through the whole of it. Indeed, the Muslims represent a homogeneous unity unparalleled in the annals of history. The mainspring of their unity is their faith and the language in which the Koran was written. For thirteen hundred years hundreds of millions of men and women, different in race, nationality, intellectual and social standards have been held together by these two independent yet mutually complementary and indissociable forces.

It is doubtful whether so astonishing a unity could have been achieved none of the other great religions has succeeded in attaining it-if the influence of Islam had been confined solely to the religious aspects of Muslim life. But, unlike Christianity and most of the other monotheistic religions, Islam provides a social and political norm as well as a religious code It lays down distinctive standards for legal, social and political conduct and regulates the life of a Muslim as a father, husband, or son, guiding him throughout the entire labyrinth of his economic and personal activities. In consequence Islam easily overrides the racial, national, or social distinctions which must needs exist between a scholar in Egypt and a farmer in Java, a tradesman in Morocco and a journalist in Syria.