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Only through modern education can a Muslim come to realize the work that Muslims have to do in modern times, the need of the modern world for true Islam, and the wonderful modernity of the Holy Quran and of so much of our Prophet's teaching, as if it had been meant expressly for the present time.
" Those Muslims who regard modern scientific education as something altogether foreign to Islam are hardly less absurd than such a man would be.
Again and again, in the Holy Quran, we are adjured to use the mind which God has given us in order to dis• criminate in matters of religion and belief, never to trust to mere tradition of the fathers, and never to take others for our Lords besides Alli:i.
There was no such conflict in the great days of Islam, when science was pursued as a religious duty.
. (View the image of this page) "Verily religion with Allah (consists in) the surrender (to His will and guidance).
But the Muslims are enlisted to bear witness to this truth of man's responsi• bility to God and of His Law of consequences, and of the necessity of surrender to Allah if the individual would find true happiness or mankind would achieve true success.
e. , the Muslims)and those who keep the Jew's religious law and Christians and Sabaeans• lVhoever believeth in Allah and the Last Day and doeth right-Surely their reward is with their Lord, and there shall no fear come upon them neither shall they suffer grief*.