| Book Title | Islam Today |
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Islam Today
ISLAM TODAY
To begin the story of Islam a decision has to be made whether to approach the subject from an insiders’ or outsiders’ point of view.
If we were to begin with the latter, the birth of Islam would begin in the Arabian Peninsula in the sixth century, focused predominantly on events in the two cities of Makkah and Madinah and concentrated on the life and activities of Muhammad (570-632) and the first Muslims.
But no devout Muslim would acknowledge the historical events in Arabia as the birth of Islam.
To do so, would place Islam in the realm of sects and cults that are created by human beings for their own devices rather than the eternal verities of divine nature and the primal relationship between the divine being and humankind.
Yasin Dutton makes a distinction between ‘original Islam’ and ‘primal Islam’. 1 The first, he suggests, describes the Islam that was revealed to Muhammad and taught to his companions based upon the Qur’anic revelation and was then ‘inherited and transmitted’ to following generations.
In other words the religion that was practised by those who lived where Muhammad lived, accepted him as the final Prophet of God, and believed the sacred text revealed to him to be the eternal and perfect word of God.
There are those amongst Muslims who believe that this ‘original’ Islam was passed on to three generations in its purest form 2 and, after that, it was maintained and kept alive to the present by a succession of mujaddids (renewers of the faith).
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