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Today Muslims are portrayed as terrorists, barbarians and uncivilized. But most of those who accuse Muslims did not know that the developments they see in the every field is due to the Muslims.
Blair and Bloom, two western religious historians wrote in the book "Islam, thousand years of faith and power" that it is important for the westerners, before branding the Muslim community as uncivilized violent extremist religious fanatics, to learn how great a nation was the Muslim Ummah. Everything whether it is science, business, construction, architecture administration, their foundations were laid by the glorious Islamic Civilization of the past which originated from the belief that
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We have lost all the glory today. What we require is something like Islamic Renaissance. In order to do that we Muslims too have to be inspired by the greatness of our past. Our greatness, what the Muslims had done for the world is still in existent. Their mark and scars are left every where to be seen. I request all the Muslim brothers and sisters to get inspiration from that and work together to bring back the glory of the past.
As an example of the scars, I would like to present the letter 'x' which we use in algebra to represent the 'unknown'. The 'x' brothers and sisters, is a scar out of many which would testify to the mathematical superiority of Muslims during the medieval times.
Khwarizmi, the pioneer of the Algebra in his book 'Aljabr wal Muqabla....' he used to write the unknown as 'shay', meaning 'thing'. Later during the renaissance of the west Khwarizmi's work was translated into Latin and they used to write 'shay' as 'xay'. 'x' is the equivalent of Arabic letter 'sheen' in Latin. Later they cut the 'ay' from the 'xay' leaving only x, the universal symbol of the unknown directly concocted from the Muslims Mathematician.
There are many such examples. I posted just one to remind my brothers and sisters to learn about our civilization and strive to bring back the golden age of our civilization. Lets not make the mistake of the past lets join together as one nation!
Today Muslims are portrayed as terrorists, barbarians and uncivilized. But most of those who accuse Muslims did not know that the developments they see in the every field is due to the Muslims.
Blair and Bloom, two western religious historians wrote in the book "Islam, thousand years of faith and power" that it is important for the westerners, before branding the Muslim community as uncivilized violent extremist religious fanatics, to learn how great a nation was the Muslim Ummah. Everything whether it is science, business, construction, architecture administration, their foundations were laid by the glorious Islamic Civilization of the past which originated from the belief that
.We have lost all the glory today. What we require is something like Islamic Renaissance. In order to do that we Muslims too have to be inspired by the greatness of our past. Our greatness, what the Muslims had done for the world is still in existent. Their mark and scars are left every where to be seen. I request all the Muslim brothers and sisters to get inspiration from that and work together to bring back the glory of the past.
As an example of the scars, I would like to present the letter 'x' which we use in algebra to represent the 'unknown'. The 'x' brothers and sisters, is a scar out of many which would testify to the mathematical superiority of Muslims during the medieval times.
Khwarizmi, the pioneer of the Algebra in his book 'Aljabr wal Muqabla....' he used to write the unknown as 'shay', meaning 'thing'. Later during the renaissance of the west Khwarizmi's work was translated into Latin and they used to write 'shay' as 'xay'. 'x' is the equivalent of Arabic letter 'sheen' in Latin. Later they cut the 'ay' from the 'xay' leaving only x, the universal symbol of the unknown directly concocted from the Muslims Mathematician.
There are many such examples. I posted just one to remind my brothers and sisters to learn about our civilization and strive to bring back the golden age of our civilization. Lets not make the mistake of the past lets join together as one nation!
Extremly good point. We've lost much in the present