other reformer or religion has ever dreamed of; a brotherhood of man which knows no bounds of colour, race, country, language or even of rank; of a unity of the human race beyond which human conception cannot go. It recognizes the equality not only of the civil and political rights of men but also of their spiritual rights. “All men are a single nation” (2:213) is the fundamental doctrine of Islām, and for that reason every nation is recognized as having received the spiritual gift of revelation. But the establishment of a vast brotherhood of all men is not the only achievement of Islām. Equally great is the unparalleled transformation which it has brought about in the world; for it has proved itself to be a spiritual force the equal of which the human race has never known. Its miraculous transformation of world conditions was brought about in an incredibly short time. It swept away the vile superstitions, the crass ignorance, the rank immorality, the old evil habits of centuries, in about two decades. That its spiritual conquests are without parallel in history is an undeniable fact, and it is because of the unparalleled spiritual transformation effected by him that Prophet Muḥammad is admitted to be the “most successful of all prophets and religious personalities” (En. Br., art. Koran).

Islām offers a solution of the great world problems

Islām has a claim upon the attention of every thinker, not only because it is the most civilizing and the greatest spiritual force of the world but also because it offers a solution of the most baffling problems which confront mankind today. Materialism, which has become humanity’s ideal in modern times, can never bring about peace and mutual trust among the nations of the world. Christianity has failed to do away with race and colour prejudices. Islām is the only force which has already succeeded in blotting out these distinctions and it is through Islām only that this great problem of the modern world can be solved. Islām is, first and foremost, an international religion, and it is only before its grand international ideal — the ideal of the equality of all races and of the unity of the human race — that the curse of nationalism, which has been and is responsible for the troubles of the ancient and the modern worlds, can be swept away. But even within the boundāries of a nation or a