(1) that there must be something real and true in the religion professed by so many people, and (2) that the man who preached and established it must have been both great and good to an extraordinary degree; for common experience leads us to conclude (_a_) that nothing which is false or unreal can survive centuries of change and (_b_) that none who is not good and great can be loved and respected by millions of men. No Muslim or Momin need therefore believe in any thing more than:-- (i) that Islam is a real and true religion, and (ii) that Muhammad was a very great and good man.[37] Thus, your belief in one God [Arabic: lā ʾilāha ʾillālāh] makes you a Muslim[38] (= _peaceful_), no matter by what other name you call yourself; and your belief in the goodness and greatness[39] of Muhammad [Arabic: Muhammad rasūlullah] makes you a Mumin (= _faithful_), no matter by what name others may call you. Let me quote here a passage from Sir Edwin Arnold's Preface to his beautiful poem "The Pearls of Faith: the Ninety-Nine Names of Allah:" [Arabic: asmāʾu l-ḥusnā] "The soul of Islam is its declaration of the _unity_ of God: its heart is the inculcation of an absolute _resignation_ to His will. Not more sublime, in religious history appears the figure of Paul the tent-maker, proclaiming 'the Unknown God' at Athens, than that of the camel-driver Muhammad, son of Abdullah and Amina, abolishing all the idols of the Arabian Pantheon, except their chief--Allahu ta 'Ala, God the Most High--and under that ancient and well-received appellation establishing _the one-ness of the origin, government, and life of the Universe_. Thereby that marvellous and gifted Teacher created a vast empire of new belief and new civilization, and prepared a sixth part of humanity for the _developments and reconciliations_ which later times will bring. For Islam must be conciliated; it cannot be thrust scornfully aside or rooted out. It shares the task of the education of the world with its sister religions, and it will contribute its eventual portion to --"that far-off divine event Towards which the whole creation moves." The _italics_ are mine. I shall have to refer to them in my subsequent Notes. Observe, the cosmopolitan poet uses only the word "Islam" and not "Muhammadanism".