Muslim Woman - The Unity of Human Origin
In Quran it has been said that We have created you all
from one breath of life. But the perception of life as an
organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its
growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-
events. This opportunity was brought to Islam by the rapid
development of a vast empire. No doubt, Christianity, long
before Islam, brought the message of equality to mankind;
but Christian Rome did not rise to the full apprehension
of the idea of humanity as a single organism. As Flint
rightly says, No Christian writer and still less, of
course, any other in the Roman Empire, can be credited
with having had more than a general and abstract
conception of human unity. And since the days of Rome the
idea does not seem to have gained much in depth and root
age in Europe. On the other hand, the growth of
territorial nationalism, with its emphasis on what is
called national characteristics, has tended rather to kill
the broad human element in the art and literature of
Europe. It was quite otherwise with Islam. Here the idea
was neither a concept of philosophy nor a dream of poetry.
As a social movement the aim of Islam was to make the idea
a living factor in the Muslim’s daily life, and thus
silently and imperceptibly to carry it towards fuller
fruition.
from one breath of life. But the perception of life as an
organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its
growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-
events. This opportunity was brought to Islam by the rapid
development of a vast empire. No doubt, Christianity, long
before Islam, brought the message of equality to mankind;
but Christian Rome did not rise to the full apprehension
of the idea of humanity as a single organism. As Flint
rightly says, No Christian writer and still less, of
course, any other in the Roman Empire, can be credited
with having had more than a general and abstract
conception of human unity. And since the days of Rome the
idea does not seem to have gained much in depth and root
age in Europe. On the other hand, the growth of
territorial nationalism, with its emphasis on what is
called national characteristics, has tended rather to kill
the broad human element in the art and literature of
Europe. It was quite otherwise with Islam. Here the idea
was neither a concept of philosophy nor a dream of poetry.
As a social movement the aim of Islam was to make the idea
a living factor in the Muslim’s daily life, and thus
silently and imperceptibly to carry it towards fuller
fruition.
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