خلاصه ماشینی:
Are the efforts of the present day thinkers to construct out of the wreckage of the old beliefs a system which might appeal to the modern world likely to succeed ?
I am afraid not ; first, because it would be a mixture devoid of the elements essential to awaken the dying religious consciousness of the masses; and secondly because it would be out of touch with modern conceptions -: One Faith alone holds out the promise that the world is not doomed to relapse into darkness or become enwrapt in gross mat• erialism.
The duties he inculcated are expressed simply in the following words : " Be kind to kindred and servants, orphans, and the '' poor ; speak righteously to men, offer thy thanksgiving to the " Giver of all gifts, and be charitable.
" Do the preachings of this desert-born Prophet, addressing a larger world and a more advanced humanity, in the nobility of their love, in their strivings and yearnings for the true, the pure, and the holy, fall short of the warnings of any single Teacher who lived before him?
The condition, therefore, is regarded by the foremost thinkers in Islam as an abrogation of the permission for peoples who have outgrown the social or economic necessities that rendered a qualifi• ed practice of plurality of wives permissible.
These constitute exactly the doctrines which Islam proclaimed in the 7th Century of the Christian Era-not in supersession of what Jesus taught but as a continuation of his efforts to revive spiritual life in the world, which leads to the observance of the rule that the service of man is the most acceptable worship to the Almighty.